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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: virtue. He thought his own idleness and the other's industry equally
becoming. He was no more anxious to insure his own reputation as a
liar than to uphold the truthfulness of his companion; and he seemed
unaware of what was incongruous in his attitude, and was plainly
sincere in both characters.
It was not surprising that he should take an interest in the
Devonian, for the lad worshipped and served him in love and wonder.
Busy as he was, he would find time to warn Alick of an approaching
officer, or even to tell him that the coast was clear, and he might
slip off and smoke a pipe in safety. 'Tom,' he once said to him, for
that was the name which Alick ordered him to use, 'if you don't like
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