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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: character that learned ye! Here, stand up, out with your airn; ye
shall walk no step beyond this place upon the road till ye can do
yoursel' and me mair credit."
"Alan," said I, "this is midsummer madness. Here is no time for
fencing lessons."
"I cannae well say no to that," he admitted. "But three times, man!
And you standing there like a straw bogle and rinning to fetch your ain
sword like a doggie with a pocket-napkin! David, this man Duncansby
must be something altogether by-ordinar! He maun be extraordinar
skilly. If I had the time, I would gang straight back and try a turn
at him mysel'. The man must be a provost."
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