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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: friendly, as I say, but what surprised me a good deal, rather
boisterous in the bargain; and the cause of this was soon to appear.
For at the ordinary, calling for Rhenish wine and drinking of it deep,
he soon became unutterably tipsy. In this case, as too common with all
men, but especially with those of his rough trade, what little sense or
manners he possessed deserted him; and he behaved himself so scandalous
to the young lady, jesting most ill-favouredly at the figure she had
made on the ship's rail, that I had no resource but carry her suddenly
away.
She came out of the ordinary clinging to me close. "Take me away,
David," she said. "YOU keep me. I am not afraid with you."
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