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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: length and with clearness. `You are not, I hope, neglecting,
Charles, to work the harbour at spring-tides; and see that you
pay the greatest attention to get the well so as to supply the
keeper with water, for he is a very helpless fellow, and so
unfond of hard work that I fear he could do ill to keep
himself in water by going to the other side for it.' - `With
regard to spirits, Charles, I see very little occasion for
it.' These abrupt apostrophes sound to me like the voice of
an awakened conscience; but they would seem to have
reverberated in vain in the ears of Charles. There was
trouble in Pladda, his scene of operations; his men ran away
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