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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: who dashed out to chastise the intruder, and found himself,
by moonlight, face to face with such a tartar. Something at
least there must have been: some hairy, dangerous brute
lodged permanently among the rocks a little to the north-west
of Silverado, spending his summer thereabout, with wife and
family.
And there was, or there had been, another animal. Once,
under the broad daylight, on that open stony hillside, where
the baby pines were growing, scarcely tall enough to be a
badge for a MacGregor's bonnet, I came suddenly upon his
innocent body, lying mummified by the dry air and sun: a
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