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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: have spoken muckle of me?"
"I never knew, sir, till you told it me yourself, that he had any
brother."
"Dear me, dear me!" said Ebenezer. "Nor yet of Shaws, I dare
say?"
"Not so much as the name, sir," said I.
"To think o' that!" said he. "A strange nature of a man!" For
all that, he seemed singularly satisfied, but whether with
himself, or me, or with this conduct of my father's, was more
than I could read. Certainly, however, he seemed to be
outgrowing that distaste, or ill-will, that he had conceived at
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