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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: While he was still looking, the visitor took his departure;
and the invalid, having carefully fastened the front door,
sprang upstairs without a trace of lassitude.
That night upon his pillow, Somerset began to kindle once
more into the hot fit of the detective fever; and the next
morning resumed the practice of his art with careless hand
and an abstracted mind. The day was destined to be fertile
in surprises; nor had he long been seated at the easel ere
the first of these occurred. A cab laden with baggage drew
up before the door; and Mrs. Luxmore in person rapidly
mounted the steps and began to pound upon the knocker.
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