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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: 'How I have toiled,' he continued, 'how I have dared and
striven to repair my losses, Heaven has beheld and will
remember. Its blessing was denied to my endeavours, or, as I
please myself by thinking, but delayed to descend upon my
daughter's head. At length, all hope was at an end; I was
ruined beyond retrieve; a heavy debt fell due upon the
morrow, which I could not meet; I should be declared a
bankrupt, and my goods, my lands, my jewels that I so much
loved, my slaves whom I have spoiled and rendered happy, and
oh! tenfold worse, you, my beloved daughter, would be sold
and pass into the hands of ignorant and greedy traffickers.
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