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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: taste for soup, and did not choose to have their little earnings
stolen from them before their eyes. Once, things came as far as a
brief personal encounter between the show-man and some lads, in
which the former went down as readily as one of his own
marionnettes to a peal of jeering laughter.
I was a good deal astonished at this scene, because I am pretty
well acquainted with the ways of French strollers, more or less
artistic; and have always found them singularly pleasing. Any
stroller must be dear to the right-thinking heart; if it were only
as a living protest against offices and the mercantile spirit, and
as something to remind us that life is not by necessity the kind of
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