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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: keeping conventicles while he lay in prison for her sake; his
friends were weary, and there was nothing else before him but
the entire loss of the family lands, and to begin life again
by the wayside as a common beggar. She took him up very
sharp and high: called upon him, if he were a Christian? and
which he most considered, the loss of a few dirty, miry
glebes, or of his soul? Presently he was heard to weep, and
my lady's voice to go on continually like a running burn,
only the words indistinguishable; whereupon it was supposed a
victory for her ladyship, and the domestics took themselves
to bed. The next day Traquair appeared like a man who had
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