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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: the rest chiefly advocates) who crowded to attend upon these beauties;
and though I was presented to all of them in very good words, it seemed
I was by all immediately forgotten. Young folk in a company are like
to savage animals: they fall upon or scorn a stranger without
civility, or I may say, humanity; and I am sure, if I had been among
baboons, they would have shown me quite as much of both. Some of the
advocates set up to be wits, and some of the soldiers to be rattles;
and I could not tell which of these extremes annoyed me most. All had
a manner of handling their swords and coat-skirts, for the which (in
mere black envy) I could have kicked them from the park. I daresay,
upon their side, they grudged me extremely the fine company in which I
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