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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: kind of tales, which nonsense I wish you would lay aside, and
notice only the concerns of your family and the important
charge committed to you.'
Apparently, however, my grandfather was not himself
inaccessible to the Tale-bearer, as the following indicates:
`In walking along with Mr. - , I explain to him that I
should be under the necessity of looking more closely into the
business here from his conduct at Buddonness, which had given
an instance of weakness in the Moral principle which had
staggered my opinion of him. His answer was, "That will be
with regard to the lass?" I told him I was to enter no
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