The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: At last, and not long before the blow fell on my unhappy
family, I chanced to see the doctor's house in a new light.
My father was ill; my mother confined to his bedside; and I
was suffered to go, under the charge of our driver, to the
lonely house some twenty miles away, where our packages were
left for us. The horse cast a shoe; night overtook us
halfway home; and it was well on for three in the morning
when the driver and I, alone in a light waggon, came to that
part of the road which ran below the doctor's house. The
moon swam clear; the cliffs and mountains in this strong
light lay utterly deserted; but the house, from its station
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