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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: laughed, and some of them began jeering him openly. 'This
fellow was thrown ashore here like a piece of weed or drift-
wood, and yet he is too proud to bring a gift to the king.'
'And though he does not know who his father is, he is vain
enough to let the old women call him the son of Zeus.'
And so forth, till poor Perseus grew mad with shame, and
hardly knowing what he said, cried out, - 'A present! who are
you who talk of presents? See if I do not bring a nobler one
than all of yours together!'
So he said boasting; and yet he felt in his heart that he was
braver than all those scoffers, and more able to do some
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