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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: of Our Lady of Lourdes. I remember one Sunday, when I was walking in
the country, that I fell on a hamlet and found all the inhabitants,
from the patriarch to the baby, gathered in the shadow of a gable at
prayer. One strapping lass stood with her back to the wall and did
the solo part, the rest chiming in devoutly. Not far off, a lad lay
flat on his face asleep among some straw, to represent the worldly
element.
Again, this people is eager to proselytise; and the postmaster's
daughter used to argue with me by the half-hour about my heresy,
until she grew quite flushed. I have heard the reverse process going
on between a Scotswoman and a French girl; and the arguments in the
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