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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: daughter!" she cried out. "But those that do not love and cherish him
I will not know."
"I will take the freedom of a word yet," said I, beginning to tremble.
"Perhaps neither your father nor I are in the best of spirits at
Prestongrange's. I daresay we both have anxious business there, for
it's a dangerous house. I was sorry for him too, and spoke to him the
first, if I could but have spoken the wiser. And for one thing, in my
opinion, you will soon find that his affairs are mending."
"It will not be through your friendship, I am thinking," said she; "and
he is much made up to you for your sorrow."
"Miss Drummond," cried I, "I am alone in this world."
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