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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: of the art of composition, a cabbage was relieved against a
copper kettle, and both contrasted with the mail of a boiled
lobster.
'My gracious goodness!' cried the lady of the house; and
then, turning in wrath on the young man, 'From what rank in
life are you sprung?' she demanded. 'You have the exterior
of a gentleman; but from the astonishing evidences before me,
I should say you can only be a greengrocer's man. Pray,
gather up your vegetables, and let me see no more of you.'
'Madam,' babbled Somerset, 'you promised me a month's
warning.'
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