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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: chump? or am I?'
'Well, then, I'll tell you what,' exclaimed M'Guire; 'you
take it for your fare!'
'Oh, I dessay,' replied the driver. 'Anything else? What's
IN your bag? Open it, and let me see.'
'No, no,' returned M'Guire. 'Oh no, not that. It's a
surprise; it's prepared expressly: a surprise for honest
cabmen.'
'No, you don't,' said the man, alighting from his perch, and
coming very close to the unhappy patriot. 'You're either
going to pay my fare, or get in again and drive to the
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