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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: entrap and to destroy you! Fy! this is no time to crouch. Look up!
Do you not think I will be admiring you like a great hero of the good -
and you a boy not much older than myself? And because you said a word
too much in a friend's ear, that would die ere she betrayed you - to
make such a matter! It is one thing that we must both forget."
"Catriona," said I, looking at her, hang-dog, "is this true of it?
Would ye trust me yet?"
"Will you not believe the tears upon my face?" she cried. "It is the
world I am thinking of you, Mr. David Balfour. Let them hang you; I
will never forget, I will grow old and still remember you. I think it
is great to die so: I will envy you that gallows."
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