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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: wolves.
Wolves, alas, like bandits, seem to flee the traveller's advance;
and you may trudge through all our comfortable Europe, and not meet
with an adventure worth the name. But here, if anywhere, a man was
on the frontiers of hope. For this was the land of the ever-
memorable BEAST, the Napoleon Bonaparte of wolves. What a career
was his! He lived ten months at free quarters in Gevaudan and
Vivarais; he ate women and children and 'shepherdesses celebrated
for their beauty'; he pursued armed horsemen; he has been seen at
broad noonday chasing a post-chaise and outrider along the king's
high-road, and chaise and outrider fleeing before him at the
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