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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: thought, 'by his way of speaking, and because he was so polite, that
he was some one from the saloon.'
I was not so sure, for to me there was something equivocal in his air
and bearing. He might have been, I thought, the son of some good
family who had fallen early into dissipation and run from home. But,
making every allowance, how admirable was his talk! I wish you could
have heard hin, tell his own stories. They were so swingingly set
forth, in such dramatic language, and illustrated here and there by
such luminous bits of acting, that they could only lose in any
reproduction. There were tales of the P. and O. Company, where he
had been an officer; of the East Indies, where in former years he had
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