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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: sympathy with these good Trappists, even when I was doing my best
to sympathise. But to the CURE the argument seemed decisive.
'Hear that!' he cried. 'And I have seen a marquis here, a marquis,
a marquis' - he repeated the holy word three times over - 'and
other persons high in society; and generals. And here, at your
side, is this gentleman, who has been so many years in armies -
decorated, an old warrior. And here he is, ready to dedicate
himself to God.'
I was by this time so thoroughly embarrassed that I pled cold feet,
and made my escape from the apartment. It was a furious windy
morning, with a sky much cleared, and long and potent intervals of
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