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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: virtues and the real success which had alone introduced them
to your knowledge. It is a dangerous frame of mind. That
you may understand how dangerous, and into what a situation
it has already brought you, we will (if you please) go hand-
in-hand through the different phrases of your letter, and
candidly examine each from the point of view of its truth,
its appositeness, and its charity.
Damien was COARSE.
It is very possible. You make us sorry for the lepers, who
had only a coarse old peasant for their friend and father.
But you, who were so refined, why were you not there, to
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