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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: misbehave; and cruelly marred the performance with their antics.
I understood a great deal of the spirit of what went on. Indeed it
would be difficult not to understand the MISERERE, which I take to
be the composition of an atheist. If it ever be a good thing to
take such despondency to heart, the MISERERE is the right music,
and a cathedral a fit scene. So far I am at one with the
Catholics:- an odd name for them, after all? But why, in God's
name, these holiday choristers? why these priests who steal
wandering looks about the congregation while they feign to be at
prayer? why this fat nun, who rudely arranges her procession and
shakes delinquent virgins by the elbow? why this spitting, and
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