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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: it is."
Whereupon, I arranged with him that he was to communicate with me, as
to his whereabouts and Catriona's welfare, in consideration of which I
was to serve him a small stipend.
He heard the business out with a great deal of eagerness; and when it
was done, "My dear fellow, my dear son," he cried out, "this is more
like yourself than any of it yet! I will serve you with a soldier's
faithfulness - "
"Let me hear no more of it!" says I. "You have got me to that pitch
that the bare name of soldier rises on my stomach. Our traffic is
settled; I am now going forth and will return in one half-hour, when I
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