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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: night beside a cradle, a fear will fall upon you, heavier
than any shame; and when your child lies in the pain and
danger of disease, you shall hesitate to kneel before your
Maker.'
'You look at the fault,' she said, 'and not at the excuse.
Has your own heart never leaped within you at some story of
oppression? But, alas, no! for you were born upon a throne.'
'I was born of woman,' said the Prince; 'I came forth from my
mother's agony, helpless as a wren, like other nurselings.
This, which you forgot, I have still faithfully remembered.
Is it not one of your English poets, that looked abroad upon
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