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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: as I have got you, and talking them over rationally, as I am just
engaged on with yourself! It would be quite the same to your aunt
to make the worst kind of a scandal, with an equal indifference to
my danger and to the feelings of our good host!'
'Well,' she said, 'and what of Ronald, then? Do you think HE is
above making a scandal? You must know him very little!'
'On the other hand, it is my pretension that I know him very well!'
I replied. 'I must speak to Ronald first - not Ronald to me - that
is all!'
'Then, please, go and speak to him at once!' she pleaded. He is
there - do you see? - at the upper end of the room, talking to that
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