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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: ceremony; as indeed they were.
It chanced that these fine clothes were not without their
influence on the scene which followed, and which makes the
prologue of our tale. For a long time Balmile was in the
habit to come to the wine-shop and eat a meal or drink a
measure of wine; sometimes with a comrade; more often alone,
when he would sit and dream and drum upon the table, and the
thoughts would show in the man's face in little glooms and
lightenings, like the sun and the clouds upon a water. For a
long time Marie-Madeleine had observed him apart. His
sadness, the beauty of his smile when by any chance he
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