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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: I took in my right hand the unhallowed staff, and with a quaking
spirit applied it to the donkey. Modestine brisked up her pace for
perhaps three steps, and then relapsed into her former minuet.
Another application had the same effect, and so with the third. I
am worthy the name of an Englishman, and it goes against my
conscience to lay my hand rudely on a female. I desisted, and
looked her all over from head to foot; the poor brute's knees were
trembling and her breathing was distressed; it was plain that she
could go no faster on a hill. God forbid, thought I, that I should
brutalise this innocent creature; let her go at her own pace, and
let me patiently follow.
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