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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: he. 'The less that I ken of thir doings the better for me;
and the best thing you can do is just to obey her, and see
and be a good son to her, the same as ye are to me, Francie.'
At the tenderness of this expression the heart of Francie
swelled within his bosom, and his remorse was poured out.
'Faither!' he cried, 'I said "deil" to-day; many's the time I
said it, and DAMNABLE too, and HELLITSH. I ken they're all
right; they're beeblical. But I didna say them beeblically;
I said them for sweir words - that's the truth of it.'
'Hout, ye silly bairn!' said the father, 'dinna do it nae
mair, and come in by to your supper.' And he took the boy,
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