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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: greatly care--morally, I mean. And then, if I succeed, and if
Pitman is staunch, there's nothing to do but find a venal doctor;
and that ought to be simple enough in a place like London. By all
accounts the town's alive with them. It wouldn't do, of course,
to advertise for a corrupt physician; that would be impolitic.
No, I suppose a fellow has simply to spot along the streets for a
red lamp and herbs in the window, and then you go in
and--and--and put it to him plainly; though it seems a delicate
step.'
He was near home now, after many devious wanderings, and turned
up John Street. As he thrust his latchkey in the lock, another
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