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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: first time - the news had come to me by way of the Infirmary), and
their next-door neighbour, unwearied in service, Miss Hannah Mayne.
Nor should I omit to mention that John Ruffini continued to write
to Mrs. Jenkin till his own death, and the clever lady known to the
world as Vernon Lee until the end: a touching, a becoming
attention to what was only the wreck and survival of their
brilliant friend.
But he to whom this affliction brought the greatest change was the
Captain himself. What was bitter in his lot, he bore with unshaken
courage; only once, in these ten years of trial, has Mrs. Fleeming
Jenkin seen him weep; for the rest of the time his wife - his
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