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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: net closes round the pilgrims, 'the white robe falls from the
black man's body.' Despair 'getteth him a grievous crab-tree
cudgel'; it was in 'sunshiny weather' that he had his fits;
and the birds in the grove about the House Beautiful, 'our
country birds,' only sing their little pious verses 'at the
spring, when the flowers appear and the sun shines warm.' 'I
often,' says Piety, 'go out to hear them; we also ofttimes
keep them tame on our house.' The post between Beulah and
the Celestial City sounds his horn, as you may yet hear in
country places. Madam Bubble, that 'tall, comely dame,
something of a swarthy complexion, in very pleasant attire,
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