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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: into with the thoroughness of a drill-sergeant on the one hand and
a child with a new plaything on the other.
'I say, wouldn't it look queer if you and me was to come to the
post-house with all this luggage?' said Rowley.
'I dare say,' I replied. 'But what else is to be done?'
'Well, now, sir - you hear me,' says Rowley. 'I think it would
look more natural-like if you was to come to the post-house alone,
and with nothing in your 'ands - more like a gentleman, you know.
And you might say that your servant and baggage was a-waiting for
you up the road. I think I could manage, somehow, to make a shift
with all them dratted things - leastways if you was to give me a
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