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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: Still his eye told a tale which his superiors could brook as little
as they could the disdainful neglect of his wife. More than one
had been concerned in the injuries to my father and mother; more
than one were interested in obtaining revenge. Things could be
done in German towns, and by favor of old German laws or usages,
which even in France could not have been tolerated. This my
father's enemies well knew, but this my father also knew; and he
endeavored to lay down his office of commissary. That, however,
was a favor which he could not obtain. He was compelled to serve
on the German campaign then commencing, and on the subsequent one
of Friedland and Eylau. Here he was caught in some one of the
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