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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: Altogether I spent so great a sum upon this pleasuring (as I may call
it) that I was ashamed for a great while to spend more; and by way of a
set-off, I left our chambers pretty bare. If we had beds, if Catriona
was a little braw, and I had light to see her by, we were richly enough
lodged for me.
By the end of this merchandising I was glad to leave her at the door
with all our purchases, and go for a long walk alone in which to read
myself a lecture. Here had I taken under my roof, and as good as to my
bosom, a young lass extremely beautiful, and whose innocence was her
peril. My talk with the old Dutchman, and the lies to which I was
constrained, had already given me a sense of how my conduct must appear
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