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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: and looking for the worst to follow. I promised myself that
he should not be disappointed; and the better to complete my
task, I turned to ascend the stairs.
The situation, as I groped my way to the first floor,
appealed to me suddenly by my strong sense of humour. Here
was I, the owner of the house, burglariously present in its
walls; and there, in the dining-room, were two gentlemen,
unknown to me, seated complacently at supper, and only saved
by my promptitude from some surprising or deadly
interruption. It were strange if I could not manage to
extract the matter of amusement from so unusual a situation.
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