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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: to supply the omission. I mentioned that I had seen Mr. Smethurst
already, and that he had been very polite to me; and we fell into a
discussion of the hatter's merits that lasted some time and left us
quite good friends at its conclusion. The topic was productive of
goodwill. We exchanged tobacco and talked about the season, and
agreed at last that we should go to the same hotel at Keswick and sup
in company. As he had some business in the town which would occupy
him some hour or so, on our arrival I was to improve the time and go
down to the lake, that I might see a glimpse of the promised wonders.
The night had fallen already when I reached the water-side, at a
place where many pleasure-boats are moored and ready for hire; and as
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