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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: think, I ought rather to have communicated this want to Bain.
Would it bore you to communicate to that effect with the great man?
The sooner I have them, the better for me. 'Tis for Henry Shovel.
But Henry Shovel has now turned into a work called 'The Shovels of
Newton French: Including Memoirs of Henry Shovel, a Private in the
Peninsular War,' which work is to begin in 1664 with the marriage
of Skipper, afterwards Alderman Shovel of Bristol, Henry's great-
great-grandfather, and end about 1832 with his own second marriage
to the daughter of his runaway aunt. Will the public ever stand
such an opus? Gude kens, but it tickles me. Two or three
historical personages will just appear: Judge Jeffreys,
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