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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: expected before night. For whom, I asked myself with
indignation, were such secret preparations likely to be made?
Although no prude, I am a woman of decided views upon
morality; if my house, to which my husband had brought me,
was to serve in the character of a PETITE MAISON, I saw
myself forced, however unwillingly, into a new course of
litigation; and, determined to return and know the worst, I
hastened to my hotel for dinner.
I was at my post by ten. The night was clear and quiet; the
moon rode very high and put the lamps to shame; and the
shadow below the chestnut was black as ink. Here, then, I
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