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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: introduced myself to the notice of the brother, who directed his talk
to me for some little while, keeping, I need hardly mention, true to
his topic, like the seamen to the star. 'He's grand of it,' he said
confidentially. 'His master was a music-hall man.' Indeed the
music-hall man had left his mark, for our fiddler was ignorant of
many of our best old airs; 'Logie o' Buchan,' for instance, he only
knew as a quick, jigging figure in a set of quadrilles, and had never
heard it called by name. Perhaps, after all, the brother was the
more interesting performer of the two. I have spoken with him
afterwards repeatedly, and found him always the same quick, fiery bit
of a man, not without brains; but he never showed to such advantage
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