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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: forty-five to fifty, dressed in tweed with a knitted spencer, and
the red ribbon of a decoration in his button-hole. This last was a
hard person to classify. He was an old soldier, who had seen
service and risen to the rank of commandant; and he retained some
of the brisk decisive manners of the camp. On the other hand, as
soon as his resignation was accepted, he had come to Our Lady of
the Snows as a boarder, and, after a brief experience of its ways,
had decided to remain as a novice. Already the new life was
beginning to modify his appearance; already he had acquired
somewhat of the quiet and smiling air of the brethren; and he was
as yet neither an officer nor a Trappist, but partook of the
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