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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: easily over-excited, his nature was placable below the
surface, and with all his faults, I loved him tenderly. At
last he was taken from me; and such is the power of self-
deception, and so strange are the whims of the dying, he
actually assured me, with his latest breath, that he forgave
the violence of my temper!
There was but one pledge of the marriage, my daughter Clara.
She had, indeed, inherited a shadow of her father's failing;
but in all things else, unless my partial eyes deceived me,
she derived her qualities from me, and might be called my
moral image. On my side, whatever else I may have done
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