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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: had come hitherto in a very poor plain habit; and this day of
the mistral, when his mantle was just open, and she saw
beneath it the glancing of the violet and the velvet and the
silver, and the clustering fineness of the lace, it seemed to
set the man in a new light, with which he shone resplendent
to her fancy.
The high inhuman note of the wind, the violence and
continuity of its outpouring, and the fierce touch of it upon
man's whole periphery, accelerated the functions of the mind.
It set thoughts whirling, as it whirled the trees of the
forest; it stirred them up in flights, as it stirred up the
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