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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: and mounted guard for the proper time among the garrison of
Algiers. Here was a man who had surely seen both sides of life
before deciding; yet as soon as he was set free from service he
returned to finish his novitiate.
This austere rule entitles a man to heaven as by right. When the
Trappist sickens, he quits not his habit; he lies in the bed of
death as he has prayed and laboured in his frugal and silent
existence; and when the Liberator comes, at the very moment, even
before they have carried him in his robe to lie his little last in
the chapel among continual chantings, joy-bells break forth, as if
for a marriage, from the slated belfry, and proclaim throughout the
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