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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: for "the wages of going on." Check him off in a dozen
directions, he would find another outlet and break forth. He
missed one vessel after another, and the main work still
halted; but so long as he had a single Japanese to enlighten
and prepare for the better future, he could still feel that
he was working for Japan. Now, he had scarce returned from
Nangasaki, when he was sought out by a new inquirer, the most
promising of all. This was a common soldier, of the Hemming
class, a dyer by birth, who had heard vaguely (1) of
Yoshida's movements, and had become filled with wonder as to
their design. This was a far different inquirer from Sakuma-
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