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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: at the same time in and around the 'Green Dragon' it woke up
a great bustle of lights running to and fro and clattering
hoofs. Presently after, out of the darkness to southward,
the mail grew near with a growing rumble. Its lamps were
very large and bright, and threw their radiance forward in
overlapping cones; the four cantering horses swarmed and
steamed; the body of the coach followed like a great shadow;
and this lit picture slid with a sort of ineffectual
swiftness over the black field of night, and was eclipsed by
the buildings of the 'Green Dragon.'
Mr. Archer turned abruptly and resumed his former walk; only
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