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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: a thing if I was to ask it?'
'Ask away,' says the father.
'Well, it's this,' said Francie: 'Why do you and me comply if
it's so wicked?'
'Ay, ye have the cant of it too!' cries Montroymont. 'But
I'll tell ye for all that. It's to try and see if we can
keep the rigging on this house, Francie. If she had her way,
we would be beggar-folk, and hold our hands out by the
wayside. When ye hear her - when ye hear folk,' he corrected
himself briskly, 'call me a coward, and one that betrayed the
Lord, and I kenna what else, just mind it was to keep a bed
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