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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson: Indian save a Parsee, a member of my club in London, equally
civilised, and (to all seeing) equally accidental with
myself. It was plain, thus far, that I should have to get
into India and out of it again upon a foot of fairy
lightness; and I believe this first suggested to me the idea
of the Chevalier Burke for a narrator. It was at first
intended that he should be Scottish, and I was then filled
with fears that he might prove only the degraded shadow of my
own Alan Breck. Presently, however, it began to occur to me
it would be like my Master to curry favour with the Prince's
Irishmen; and that an Irish refugee would have a particular
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