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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: cannot say that they appeared any other way conscious of my presence;
and though always more than civil, with a kind of heartless cordiality,
could not hide how much I wearied them. As for the aunt, she was a
wonderful still woman; and I think she gave me much the same attention
as she gave the rest of the family, which was little enough. The
eldest daughter and the Advocate himself were thus my principal
friends, and our familiarity was much increased by a pleasure that we
took in common. Before the court met we spent a day or two at the
house of Grange, living very nobly with an open table, and here it was
that we three began to ride out together in the fields, a practice
afterwards maintained in Edinburgh, so far as the Advocate's continual
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