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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: "When we got past the Bosphorus the men began to grumble.
Some o' them, the Roumanians, came and asked me to heave
overboard a big box which had been put on board by a
queer lookin' old man just before we had started frae London.
I had seen them speer at the fellow, and put out their twa
fingers when they saw him, to guard them against the evil eye.
Man! but the supersteetion of foreigners is pairfectly rideeculous!
I sent them aboot their business pretty quick, but as just
after a fog closed in on us I felt a wee bit as they did
anent something, though I wouldn't say it was again the big box.
Well, on we went, and as the fog didn't let up for five
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