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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: of your own country of Balwhidder."
"It was not one of my people gave it," said she.
"Ah, well." said I, "but I am owing your uncle at least for some
springs upon the pipes. Besides which, I have offered myself to be
your friend, and you have been so forgetful that you did not refuse me
in the proper time."
"If it had been a great sum, it might have done you honour," said she;
"but I will tell you what this is. James More lies shackled in prison;
but this time past they will be bringing him down here daily to the
Advocate's. . . ."
"The Advocate's!" I cried. "Is that . . . ?"
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