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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: with a smile, I drew out Mr. Caulder's pocket-book and turned
to the page on which the dying man had scrawled his
testament. How shall I describe the agony of happiness and
remorse with which I read it! for my victim had not only set
me free, but bequeathed to me the bag of jewels.
My plain tale draws towards a close. Sir George and I, in my
character of his rejuvenated wife, displayed ourselves arm-
in-arm among the negroes, and were cheered and followed to
the place of embarkation. There, Sir George, turning about,
made a speech to his old companions, in which he thanked and
bade them farewell with a very manly spirit; and towards the
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