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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: what I should compare it - '
'Silence!' she cried. 'You do not know the danger you
invoke. Wait, only wait; and as soon as we have left those
streets, and got beyond the reach of listeners, all shall be
explained. Meanwhile, avoid the topic. What a sight is this
sleeping city!' she exclaimed; and then, with a most
thrilling voice, '"Dear God," she quoted, "the very houses
seem asleep, and all that mighty heart is lying still."'
'I perceive, madam,' said he, 'you are a reader.'
'I am more than that,' she answered, with a sigh. 'I am a
girl condemned to thoughts beyond her age; and so untoward is
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