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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: the river-side, applying it in various ways to her particular
aspirations, and the result, which was hardly to her mind,
had taken the colour out of her cheeks. Mr. Archer, too, was
somewhat absent, his thoughts were of a mingled strain; and
even upon his usually impassive countenance there were
betrayed successive depths of depression and starts of
exultation, which the girl translated in terms of her own
hopes and fears. But Jonathan was the most altered: he was
strangely silent, hardly passing a word, and watched Mr.
Archer with an eager and furtive eye. It seemed as if the
idea that had so long hovered before him had now taken a more
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