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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: go to our mountain servantless. It must have been near half
an hour before we reached that conclusion, standing in the
midst of Calistoga high street under the stars, and the
China-boy and Kong Sam Kee singing their pigeon English in
the sweetest voices and with the most musical inflections.
We were not, however, to return alone; for we brought with us
Joe Strong, the painter, a most good-natured comrade and a
capital hand at an omelette. I do not know in which capacity
he was most valued - as a cook or a companion; and he did
excellently well in both.
The Kong Sam Kee negotiation had delayed us unduly; it must
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