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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: superiors; and my experiments will be no longer hampered by
pitiful conditions of the purse.'
'What I am now about, sir, is a crime,' replied Somerset;
'and were you to roll in wealth like Vanderbilt, I should
scorn to be reimbursed of money I had so scandalously
misapplied. Take it, and keep it. By George, sir, three
days of you have transformed me to an ancient Roman.'
With these words, Somerset hailed a passing hansom; and the
pair were driven rapidly to the railway terminus. There, an
oath having been exacted, the money changed hands.
'And now,' said Somerset, 'I have bought back my honour with
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