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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: consonance, not so much with his purse, as with the admirable
wine he had discussed. What with one thing and another, it
was long past midnight when he returned home. A cab was at
the door; and entering the hall, Somerset found himself face
to face with one of the most regular of the few who visited
Mr. Jones: a man of powerful figure, strong lineaments, and
a chin-beard in the American fashion. This person was
carrying on one shoulder a black portmanteau, seemingly of
considerable weight. That he should find a visitor removing
baggage in the dead of night, recalled some odd stories to
the young man's memory; he had heard of lodgers who thus
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