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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: 'Just so,' said Challoner; 'and I am delighted that you
should recognise these virtues in yourself. But in the
meanwhile, dear boy, I own myself incapable of joining. I
was neither born nor bred as a detective, but as a placable
and very thirsty gentleman; and, for my part, I begin to
weary for a drink. As for clues and adventures, the only
adventure that is ever likely to occur to me will be an
adventure with a bailiff.'
'Now there is the fallacy,' cried Somerset. 'There I catch
the secret of your futility in life. The world teems and
bubbles with adventure; it besieges you along the street:
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