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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: in a train of very doubtful acts and bring me among very undesirable
persons this many a day to come. And then you tell me you're going
straight out of my office to make your peace with the Advocate! Alan's
button here or Alan's button there, the four quarters of Alan wouldnae
bribe me further in."
"I would take it with a little more temper," said I, "and perhaps we
can avoid what you object to. I can see no way for it but to give
myself up, but perhaps you can see another; and if you could, I could
never deny but what I would be rather relieved. For I think my traffic
with his lordship is little likely to agree with my health. There's
just the one thing clear, that I have to give my evidence; for I hope
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