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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: and with how much curiosity, I have looked forward to the book.
Now, in so far as you have adhered to your intention, Gower
Woodsere will be a family portrait, age twenty-five, of the highly
respectable and slightly influential and fairly aged TUSITALA. You
have not known that gentleman; console yourself, he is not worth
knowing. At the same time, my dear Meredith, he is very sincerely
yours - for what he is worth, for the memories of old times, and in
the expectation of many pleasures still to come. I suppose we
shall never see each other again; flitting youths of the Lysaght
species may occasionally cover these unconscionable leagues and
bear greetings to and fro. But we ourselves must be content to
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