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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: The queen and the crown prince with one accord fell sick;
and, as I was sick to begin with, our lone position on Mount
Saint Helena was no longer tenable, and we had to hurry back
to Calistoga and a cottage on the green. By that time we had
begun to realize the difficulties of our position. We had
found what an amount of labour it cost to support life in our
red canyon; and it was the dearest desire of our hearts to
get a China-boy to go along with us when we returned. We
could have given him a whole house to himself, self-
contained, as they say in the advertisements; and on the
money question we were prepared to go far. Kong Sam Kee, the
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