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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: was but for a little way that we skirted by its boundaries. And
the rest of the time the rain kept coming in squirts and the wind
in squalls, until one's heart grew weary of such fitful, scolding
weather. It was odd how the showers began when we had to carry the
boats over a lock, and must expose our legs. They always did.
This is a sort of thing that readily begets a personal feeling
against nature. There seems no reason why the shower should not
come five minutes before or five minutes after, unless you suppose
an intention to affront you. The CIGARETTE had a mackintosh which
put him more or less above these contrarieties. But I had to bear
the brunt uncovered. I began to remember that nature was a woman.
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