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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: actions, and land him at last in an undesired and most
unsuitable union for life. If he had been strong enough to
refrain or bad enough to persevere in evil; if he had only
not been Don Juan at all, or been Don Juan altogether, there
had been some possible road for him throughout this
troublesome world; but a man, alas! who is equally at the
call of his worse and better instincts, stands among changing
events without foundation or resource. (1)
(1) For the love affairs see, in particular, Mr. Scott
Douglas's edition under the different dates.
DOWNWARD COURSE.
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