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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: of a singing quadrille.
A magazine club supplies you with everything, from the QUARTERLY to
the SUNDAY AT HOME. Grand tournaments are organised at chess,
draughts, billiards and whist. Once and again wandering artists drop
into our mountain valley, coming you know not whence, going you
cannot imagine whither, and belonging to every degree in the
hierarchy of musical art, from the recognised performer who announces
a concert for the evening, to the comic German family or solitary
long-haired German baritone, who surprises the guests at dinner-time
with songs and a collection. They are all of them good to see; they,
at least, are moving; they bring with them the sentiment of the open
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