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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: you have no call to load yourself with that ungodly
contraband.'
'Merely a curiosity, dear boy,' he said persuasively, and
slipped the brick into his bag; 'merely a memento of the past
- ah, happy past, bright past! You will not take a touch of
spirits? no? I find you very abstemious. Well,' he added,
'if you have really no curiosity to await the event - '
'I!' cried Somerset. 'My blood boils to get away.'
'Well, then,' said Zero, 'I am ready; I would I could say,
willing; but thus to leave the scene of my sublime endeavours
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