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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: in even a commonplace or dreary country-side. Something that we have
seen from miles back, upon an eminence, is so long hid from us, as we
wander through folded valleys or among woods, that our expectation of
seeing it again is sharpened into a violent appetite, and as we draw
nearer we impatiently quicken our steps and turn every corner with a
beating heart. It is through these prolongations of expectancy, this
succession of one hope to another, that we live out long seasons of
pleasure in a few hours' walk. It is in following these capricious
sinuosities that we learn, only bit by bit and through one coquettish
reticence after another, much as we learn the heart of a friend, the
whole loveliness of the country. This disposition always preserves
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