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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: leering image of the woman.
I was still running, mad with fear and anger, when I saw my
father coming to meet me from the landing-place; and with a
cry that I thought would have killed me, leaped into his arms
and broke into a passion of sobs and tears upon his bosom.
He made me sit down below a tall palmetto that grew not far
off; comforted me, but with some abstraction in his voice;
and as soon as I regained the least command upon my feelings,
asked me, not without harshness, what this grief betokened.
I was surprised by his tone into a still greater measure of
composure; and in firm tones, though still interrupted by
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