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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: in eloquent appeal.
'Are you an English gentleman?' she cried.
The unhappy Challoner regarded her with consternation. He
was the spirit of fine courtesy, and would have blushed to
fail in his devoirs to any lady; but, in the other scale, he
was a man averse from amorous adventures. He looked east and
west; but the houses that looked down upon this interview
remained inexorably shut; and he saw himself, though in the
full glare of the day's eye, cut off from any human
intervention. His looks returned at last upon the suppliant.
He remarked with irritation that she was charming both in
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