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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Oh, Barbara, let me see her properly!" I pleaded. "YOU can - you see
her when you please; let me have half an hour."
"Who is it that is managing this love affair! You! Or me?" she asked,
and as I continued to press her with my instances, fell back upon a
deadly expedient: that of imitating the tones of my voice when I
called on Catriona by name; with which, indeed, she held me in
subjection for some days to follow.
There was never the least word heard of the memorial, or none by me.
Prestongrange and his grace the Lord President may have heard of it
(for what I know) on the deafest sides of their heads; they kept it to
themselves, at least - the public was none the wiser; and in course of
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