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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: perhaps, easy to exaggerate the ready-made resemblances; the
tired woman must have done much to fashion girls who were
under ten; the man, lusty and opinionated, must have stamped a
strong impression on the boy of fifteen. But the cleavage of
the family was too marked, the identity of character and
interest produced between the two men on the one hand, and the
three women on the other, was too complete to have been the
result of influence alone. Particular bonds of union must
have pre-existed on each side. And there is no doubt that the
man and the boy met with common ambitions, and a common bent,
to the practice of that which had not so long before acquired
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