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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: messenger to call my grand-father. He came: he found the
islanders beside themselves at this unwelcome resurrection of
the dead and the detested; he was shown, as adminicular of
testimony, the traveller's uncouth and thick-soled boots; he
argued, and finding argument unavailing, consented to enter
the room and examine with his own eyes the sleeping Pict. One
glance was sufficient: the man was now a missionary, but he
had been before that an Edinburgh shopkeeper with whom my
grandfather had dealt. He came forth again with this report,
and the folk of the island, wholly relieved, dispersed to
their own houses. They were timid as sheep and ignorant as
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