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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: which he most considered, the loss of a few dirty, miry
glebes, or of his soul? Presently he was heard to weep, and
my lady's voice to go on continually like a running burn,
only the words indistinguishable; whereupon it was supposed a
victory for her ladyship, and the domestics took themselves
to bed. The next day Traquair appeared like a man who had
gone under the harrows; and his lady wife thenceforward
continued in her old course without the least deflection.
Thenceforward Ninian went on his way without complaint, and
suffered his wife to go on hers without remonstrance. He
still minded his estate, of which it might be said he took
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