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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: jugs with real water in them, and dinner: a real dinner, not
innocent of real wine. After having been a pedlar for one night,
and a butt for the elements during the whole of the next day, these
comfortable circumstances fell on my heart like sunshine. There
was an English fruiterer at dinner, travelling with a Belgian
fruiterer; in the evening at the CAFE, we watched our compatriot
drop a good deal of money at corks; and I don't know why, but this
pleased us.
It turned out we were to see more of Landrecies than we expected;
for the weather next day was simply bedlamite. It is not the place
one would have chosen for a day's rest; for it consists almost
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