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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: circumstances. If you will raise your veil - '
'Sir,' I interrupted, 'let there be no mistake. I ask you,
as a gentleman, to serve me, but I offer no reward.'
'That is frank,' said he; 'but hardly tempting. And what,
may I inquire, is the nature of the service?'
But I knew well enough it was not my interest to tell him on
so short an interview. 'If you will accompany me,' said I,
'to a house not far from here, you can see for yourself.'
He looked at me awhile with hesitating eyes; and then,
tossing away his cigar, which was not yet a quarter smoked,
'Here goes!' said he, and with perfect politeness offered me
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