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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: must deal with you more confidentially," says he. "This is a political
case - ah, yes, Mr. Balfour! whether we like it or no, the case is
political - and I tremble when I think what issues may depend from it.
To a political case, I need scarce tell a young man of your education,
we approach with very different thoughts from one which is criminal
only. SALUS POPULI SUPREMA LEX is a maxim susceptible of great abuse,
but it has that force which we find elsewhere only in the laws of
nature: I mean it has the force of necessity. I will open this out to
you, if you will allow me, at more length. You would have me believe -
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"Under your pardon, my lord, I would have you to believe nothing but
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