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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: home, I dropped into Cheeseborough's, and was asked if I
should like to speak with Mr. Foss. Supposing that the
interview was impossible, and that I was merely called upon
to subscribe the general sentiment, I boldly answered "Yes."
Next moment, I had one instrument at my ear, another at my
mouth and found myself, with nothing in the world to say,
conversing with a man several miles off among desolate hills.
Foss rapidly and somewhat plaintively brought the
conversation to an end; and he returned to his night's grog
at Fossville, while I strolled forth again on Calistoga high
street. But it was an odd thing that here, on what we are
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