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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: fowling for his pleasure on the red moors, or eating the very
gooseberries in the Place garden; and saw always, on the
other hand, the figure of Francis go forth, a beggar, into
the broad world.
It was in vain the poor gentleman sought to moderate; took
every test and took advantage of every indulgence; went and
drank with the dragoons in Balweary; attended the communion
and came regularly to the church to Curate Haddo, with his
son beside him. The mad, raging, Presbyterian zealot of a
wife at home made all of no avail; and indeed the house must
have fallen years before if it had not been for the secret
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