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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: we can trust him. I seem to read among his words a certain
tragic promise. Asenath, if I leave you, if I die, you will
not forget your miserable parents?'
Thereupon we fell to cross-purposes: I beseeching her to
explain her words; she putting me by, and continuing to
recommend the doctor for a friend. 'The doctor!' I cried at
last; 'the man who killed my father?'
'Nay,' said she, 'let us be just. I do believe before,
Heaven, he played the friendliest part. And he alone,
Asenath, can protect you in this land of death.'
At this the doctor returned, leading our two horses; and when
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