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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: surface for the mysteries on which it stood?
We dwelt originally in the city; but at an early date we
moved to a beautiful house in a green dingle, musical with
splashing water, and surrounded on almost every side by
twenty miles of poisonous and rocky desert. The city was
thirty miles away; there was but one road, which went no
further than my father's door; the rest were bridle-tracks
impassable in winter; and we thus dwelt in a solitude
inconceivable to the European. Our only neighbour was Dr.
Grierson. To my young eyes, after the hair-oiled, chin-
bearded elders of the city, and the ill-favoured and mentally
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