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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: child was deserted, she was clean flung away in the midst of Europe,
with scarce two shillings, and not two words of any language spoken
there: I must say, a bonny business! I brought her to this place. I
gave her the name and the tenderness due to a sister. All this has not
gone without expense, but that I scarce need to hint at. They were
services due to the young lady's character which I respect; and I think
it would be a bonny business too, if I was to be singing her praises to
her father."
"You are a young man," he began.
"So I hear you tell me," said I, with a good deal of heat.
"You are a very young man," he repeated, "or you would have understood
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