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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: hundred kitchens; and it came in upon me strongly it was time to break
our fasts.
"Catriona," said I, "I believe you have yet a shilling and three
baubees?"
"Are you wanting it?" said she, and passed me her purse. "I am wishing
it was five pounds! What will you want it for?"
"And what have we been walking for all night, like a pair of waif
Egyptians!" says I. "Just because I was robbed of my purse and all I
possessed in that unchancy town of Rotterdam. I will tell you of it
now, because I think the worst is over, but we have still a good tramp
before us till we get to where my money is, and if you would not buy me
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