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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: remind us) were after all his, and he must decide. He was, in this
as in all other things, an iron taskmaster, sparing not himself nor
others. If you were going to do it at all, he would see that it
was done as well as you were able. I have known him to keep two
culprits (and one of these his wife) repeating the same action and
the same two or three words for a whole weary afternoon. And yet
he gained and retained warm feelings from far the most of those who
fell under his domination, and particularly (it is pleasant to
remember) from the girls. After the slipshod training and the
incomplete accomplishments of a girls' school, there was something
at first annoying, at last exciting and bracing, in this high
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