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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: of the road it managed to keep clear in our teeth until the
end.
For some two miles we rattled through the valley, skirting
the eastern foothills; then we struck off to the right,
through haugh-land, and presently, crossing a dry water-
course, entered the Toll road, or, to be more local, entered
on "the grade." The road mounts the near shoulder of Mount
Saint Helena, bound northward into Lake County. In one place
it skirts along the edge of a narrow and deep canyon, filled
with trees, and I was glad, indeed, not to be driven at this
point by the dashing Foss. Kelmar, with his unvarying smile,
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