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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: that house, I will cut you to the earth.' And even as he
spoke, he threw an uneasy glance behind him at the following
crowd of blacks.
I did not wait to be twice threatened; I obeyed at once, and
with a palpitating heart; and the next moment, the door was
locked from the outside and the key withdrawn. The interior
was long, low, and quite unfurnished, but filled, almost from
end to end, with sugar-cane, tar-barrels, old tarry rope, and
other incongruous and highly inflammable material; and not
only was the door locked, but the solitary window barred with
iron.
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