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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: nothing beyond penury of other sorts, and is not at all likely to
lead me into a long letter. If I were at all grateful it would,
for yours has just passed for me a considerable part of a stormy
evening. And speaking of gratitude, let me at once and with
becoming eagerness accept your kind invitation to Bowdon. I shall
hope, if we can agree as to dates when I am nearer hand, to come to
you sometime in the month of May. I was pleased to hear you were a
Scot; I feel more at home with my compatriots always; perhaps the
more we are away, the stronger we feel that bond.
You ask about Davos; I have discoursed about it already, rather
sillily I think, in the PALL MALL, and I mean to say no more, but
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