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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: VOITURE, MESSIEURS, MESDAMES,' sings the Doctor; and on we go again
at a good round pace, for black care follows hard after us, and
discretion prevails not a little over valour in some timorous spirits
of the party. At any moment we may meet the sergeant, who will send
us back. At any moment we may encounter a flying shell, which will
send us somewhere farther off than Grez.
Grez - for that is our destination - has been highly recommended for
its beauty. 'IL Y A DE L'EAU,' people have said, with an emphasis,
as if that settled the question, which, for a French mind, I am
rather led to think it does. And Grez, when we get there, is indeed
a place worthy of some praise. It lies out of the forest, a cluster
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