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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: she liked, chief among whom was a certain frail old gentlewoman, very
blind and very witty, who dwelt on the top of a tall land on a strait
close, with a nest of linnets in a cage, and thronged all day with
visitors. Miss Grant was very fond to carry me there and put me to
entertain her friend with the narrative of my misfortunes: and Miss
Tibbie Ramsay (that was her name) was particular kind, and told me a
great deal that was worth knowledge of old folks and past affairs in
Scotland. I should say that from her chamber window, and not three
feet away, such is the straitness of that close, it was possible to
look into a barred loophole lighting the stairway of the opposite
house.
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