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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: The landlady, like every one else through all that journey,
was expecting my arrival. A fire was lighted in my room,
which looked upon the garden; there were books on the table,
clothes in the drawers; and there (I had almost said with
contentment, and certainly with resignation) I saw month
follow month over my head. At times my landlady took me for
a walk or an excursion, but she would never suffer me to
leave the house alone; and I, seeing that she also lived
under the shadow of that widespread Mormon terror, felt too
much pity to resist. To the child born on Mormon soil, as to
the man who accepts the engagements of a secret order, no
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