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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: serving her Orson, were the two bits of human nature that most
appealed to me throughout the voyage.
On the Thursday before we arrived, the tickets were collected; and
soon a rumour began to go round the vessel; and this girl, with her
bit of sealskin cap, became the centre of whispering and pointed
fingers. She also, it was said, was a stowaway of a sort; for she
was on board with neither ticket nor money; and the man with whom she
travelled was the father of a family, who had left wife and children
to be hers. The ship's officers discouraged the story, which may
therefore have been a story and no more; but it was believed in the
steerage, and the poor girl had to encounter many curious eyes from
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