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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: Carlile was indeed to have sailed himself, but did not go after
all; I never could discover for what reason.
On the opposite side of the table is a group, scarcely less
interesting. Martin Frobisher and John Davis, the pioneers of the
North-West passage, are talking with Alderman Sanderson, the great
geographer and "setter forth of globes;" with Mr. Towerson, Sir
Gilbert Peckham, our old acquaintance Captain John Winter, and
last, but not least, with Philip Sidney himself, who, with his
accustomed courtesy; has given up his rightful place toward the
head of the table that he may have a knot of virtuosi all to
himself; and has brought with him, of course, his two especial
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