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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: he said at last, "I tell you pointedly you go an ill way for your own
interests."
"My lord," I said, "I am as free of the charge of considering my own
interests in this matter as your lordship. As God judges me, I have
but the one design, and that is to see justice executed and the
innocent go clear. If in pursuit of that I come to fall under your
lordship's displeasure, I must bear it as I may."
At this he rose from his chair, lit a second candle, and for a while
gazed upon me steadily. I was surprised to see a great change of
gravity fallen upon his face, and I could have almost thought he was a
little pale.
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