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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: angered, half in a mind to laugh at his evasions.
"Not yet," says he; "but I've a grand memory for forgetting,
David."
"And yet there was one thing I saw clearly," said I; "and that
was, that you exposed yourself and me to draw the soldiers."
"It's very likely," said Alan; "and so would any gentleman. You
and me were innocent of that transaction."
"The better reason, since we were falsely suspected, that we
should get clear," I cried. "The innocent should surely come
before the guilty."
"Why, David," said he, "the innocent have aye a chance to get
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