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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: hair and beard fell full halfway to the ground in waving curls, so
exquisitely delicate that Gluck could hardly tell where they ended;
they seemed to melt into air. The features of the face, however,
were by no means finished with the same delicacy; they were rather
coarse, slightly inclining to coppery in complexion, and indicative,
in expression, of a very pertinacious and intractable disposition in
their small proprietor. When the dwarf had finished his self-
examination, he turned his small, sharp eyes full on Gluck and
stared at him deliberately for a minute or two. "No, it wouldn't,
Gluck, my boy," said the little man.
This was certainly rather an abrupt and unconnected mode of
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