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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: accomplished; and seeing her more than the equal of her
neighbours, and surrounded by the most considerate affection
and respect, I grew up to adore her, and when the time came,
received her last sigh upon my lips, still ignorant that she
was a slave, and alas! my father's mistress. Her death,
which befell me in my sixteenth year, was the first sorrow I
had known: it left our home bereaved of its attractions,
cast a shade of melancholy on my youth, and wrought in my
father a tragic and durable change. Months went by; with the
elasticity of my years, I regained some of the simple mirth
that had before distinguished me; the plantation smiled with
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