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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: to observe him curiously.
Another hope was gone. M'Guire reissued from the entry,
still followed by the wondering eyes of the man in the
sleeved waistcoat. He once more consulted his watch: there
were but fourteen minutes left to him. At that, it seemed as
if a sudden, genial heat were spread about his brain; for a
second or two, he saw the world as red as blood; and
thereafter entered into a complete possession of himself,
with an incredible cheerfulness of spirits, prompting him to
sing and chuckle as he walked. And yet this mirth seemed to
belong to things external; and within, like a black and
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