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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: saw you and the curate a while back - '
'Brat!' cried Janet, and coloured up crimson; and the one
moment made as if she would have stricken him with a ragged
stick she had to chase her bestial with, and the next was
begging and praying that he would mention it to none. It was
'naebody's business, whatever,' she said; 'it would just
start a clash in the country'; and there would be nothing
left for her but to drown herself in Dule Water.
'Why?' says Francie.
The girl looked at him and grew scarlet again.
'And it isna that, anyway,' continued Francie. 'It was just
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