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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: impotent hate and fear, they still hunt from den to den, from
disguise to disguise. Yes, my landlord, you have it in your
power, if you be poor, to lay the basis of your fortune; if
you be unknown, to capture honour at one snatch. You have
hocussed an innocent widow; and I find you here in my
apartment, for whose use I pay you in stamped money,
searching my wardrobe, and your hand - shame, sir! - your
hand in my very pocket. You can now complete the cycle of
your ignominious acts, by what will be at once the simplest,
the safest, and the most remunerative.' The speaker paused
as if to emphasise his words; and then, with a great change
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