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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: warning, and a present perhaps, and the rest of the life to
vain regret. Or, worse still, to see the child gradually
forgetting and forsaking her, fostered in disrespect and
neglect on the plea of growing manliness, and at last
beginning to treat her as a servant whom he had treated a few
years before as a mother. She sees the Bible or the Psalm-
book, which with gladness and love unutterable in her heart
she had bought for him years ago out of her slender savings,
neglected for some newer gift of his father, lying in dust in
the lumber-room or given away to a poor child, and the act
applauded for its unfeeling charity. Little wonder if she
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