The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: among trees and meadows, has a romantic flavour for the
imagination. There is nobody, under thirty, so dead but his heart
will stir a little at sight of a gypsies' camp. 'We are not
cotton-spinners all'; or, at least, not all through. There is some
life in humanity yet: and youth will now and again find a brave
word to say in dispraise of riches, and throw up a situation to go
strolling with a knapsack.
An Englishman has always special facilities for intercourse with
French gymnasts; for England is the natural home of gymnasts. This
or that fellow, in his tights and spangles, is sure to know a word
or two of English, to have drunk English AFF-'N-AFF, and perhaps
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