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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: 'Please, Mr Bloomfield, you must not be hard on Mr Forsyth,' said
Julia. 'Poor boy, he is in dreadful straits.'
'What's this, Gid?' enquired the uncle. 'Have you been fighting?
or is it a bill?'
These, in the opinion of the Squirradical, were the two
misfortunes incident to gentlemen; and indeed both were culled
from his own career. He had once put his name (as a matter of
form) on a friend's paper; it had cost him a cool thousand; and
the friend had gone about with the fear of death upon him ever
since, and never turned a corner without scouting in front of him
for Mr Bloomfield and the oaken staff. As for fighting, the
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