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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: sorry for the loss of her husband's earnings, she made no pretence of
despair at the loss of his affection; some day she would meet the
fugitives, and the law would see her duly righted, and in the
meantime the smallest contribution was gratefully received. While
she was telling all this in the most matter-of-fact way, I had been
noticing the approach of a tall man, with a high white hat and
darkish clothes. He came up the hill at a rapid pace, and joined our
little group with a sort of half-salutation. Turning at once to the
woman, he asked her in a business-like way whether she had anything
to do, whether she were a Catholic or a Protestant, whether she could
read, and so forth; and then, after a few kind words and some
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