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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: strangely silent, hardly passing a word, and watched Mr.
Archer with an eager and furtive eye. It seemed as if the
idea that had so long hovered before him had now taken a more
solid shape, and, while it still attracted, somewhat alarmed
his imagination.
At this rate, conversation languished into a silence which
was only broken by the gentle and ghostly noises of the rain
on the stone roof and about all that field of ruins; and they
were all relieved when the note of a man whistling and the
sound of approaching footsteps in the grassy court announced
a visitor. It was the ostler from the 'Green Dragon'
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