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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: her choice cannot be that of a man with a base ideal, so I am sure
the change will be a safe and a good one. Do not fear that
anything you love will vanish, he must love it too.'
Among other introductions in London, Fleeming had presented a
letter from Mrs. Gaskell to the Alfred Austins. This was a family
certain to interest a thoughtful young man. Alfred, the youngest
and least known of the Austins, had been a beautiful golden-haired
child, petted and kept out of the way of both sport and study by a
partial mother. Bred an attorney, he had (like both his brothers)
changed his way of life, and was called to the bar when past
thirty. A Commission of Enquiry into the state of the poor in
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