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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: hundred hours before coming to seek help, and had the week been twice
as long, she would have waited still. There was a canonical day for
consultation; such was the ancestral habit, to which a respectable
lady must study to conform.
Two conveyances go daily to Le Puy, but they rival each other in
polite concessions rather than in speed. Each will wait an hour or
two hours cheerfully while an old lady does her marketing or a
gentleman finishes the papers in a cafe. The COURRIER (such is the
name of one) should leave Le Puy by two in the afternoon and arrive
at Monastier in good on the return voyage, and arrive at Monastier in
good time for a six-o'clock dinner. But the driver dares not
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