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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: and determined to visit the insolent young Etonians the next night
in his celebrated character of 'Reckless Rupert, or the Headless
Earl.'
He had not appeared in this disguise for more than seventy years;
in fact, not since he had so frightened pretty Lady Barbara Modish
by means of it, that she suddenly broke off her engagement with the
present Lord Canterville's grandfather, and ran away to Gretna
Green with handsome Jack Castleton, declaring that nothing in the
world would induce her to marry into a family that allowed such a
horrible phantom to walk up and down the terrace at twilight. Poor
Jack was afterwards shot in a duel by Lord Canterville on
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