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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: shaft and tunnel.
Presently we heard his voice raised to his companion. "We
drifted every sort of way, but couldn't strike the ledge."
Then again: "It pinched out here." And once more: "Every
minor that ever worked upon it says there's bound to be a
ledge somewhere."
These were the snatches of his talk that reached us, and they
had a damning significance. We, the lords of Silverado, had
come face to face with our superior. It is the worst of all
quaint and of all cheap ways of life that they bring us at
last to the pinch of some humiliation. I liked well enough
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