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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: in your plans that a common-school education should have enabled you
to avoid. And," he continued, "I have been put to expense that I
could ill afford in pursuing this swindling quest. I am done with
it."
I rose and pointed a large pewter spoon at him, fresh from the dish-
water.
"Goodloe Banks," I said, "I care not one parboiled navy bean for your
education. I always barely tolerated it in any one, and I despised it
in you. What has your learning done for you? It is a curse to
yourself and a bore to your friends. Away," I said--"away with your
water-marks and variations! They are nothing to me. They shall not
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