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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: I began to break forth in thanks, but he checked me with a
sombre roughness.
'Your mother's illness,' he resumed, 'had engaged too great a
portion of my time; my business in the city had lain too long
at the mercy of ignorant underlings; my head, my taste, my
unequalled knowledge of the more precious stones, that art by
which I can distinguish, even on the darkest night, a
sapphire from a ruby, and tell at a glance in what quarter of
the earth a gem was disinterred - all these had been too long
absent from the conduct of affairs. Teresa, I was
insolvent.'
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