The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: and he went and gave it all to Schwartz, and Schwartz got out of
prison. Then Schwartz was quite pleased and said he should have
some of the gold of the river. But Gluck only begged he would go
and see what had become of Hans.
Now when Schwartz had heard that Hans had stolen the holy
water, he thought to himself that such a proceeding might not be
considered altogether correct by the King of the Golden River, and
determined to manage matters better. So he took some more of
Gluck's money and went to a bad priest, who gave him some holy water
very readily for it. Then Schwartz was sure it was all quite right.
So Schwartz got up early in the morning before the sun rose, and
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