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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: lymphatic and sad, with something the look of a Dane: 'TRISTES
TETES DE DANOIS!' as Gaston Lafenestre used to say.
I must not let that name go by without a word for the best of all
good fellows now gone down into the dust. We shall never again see
Gaston in his forest costume - he was Gaston with all the world, in
affection, not in disrespect - nor hear him wake the echoes of
Fontainebleau with the woodland horn. Never again shall his kind
smile put peace among all races of artistic men, and make the
Englishman at home in France. Never more shall the sheep, who were
not more innocent at heart than he, sit all unconsciously for his
industrious pencil. He died too early, at the very moment when he
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