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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: on Paris; and it required a series of converging incidents to
change my attitude of nonchalance for one of interest, and even
longing, which I little dreamed that I should live to gratify.
The first of these incidents brought me in acquaintance with a
certain San Francisco character, who had something of a name
beyond the limits of the city, and was known to many lovers of
good English. I had discovered a new slum, a place of
precarious, sandy cliffs, deep, sandy cuttings, solitary, ancient
houses, and the butt-ends of streets. It was already environed.
The ranks of the street-lamps threaded it unbroken. The city,
upon all sides of it, was tightly packed, and growled with
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