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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: on the financial point that my position is weakest,' he
reflected. 'Is there positively no way of raising the wind? In a
vast city like this, and surrounded by all the resources of
civilization, it seems not to be conceived! Let us have no more
precipitation. Is there nothing I can sell? My collection of
signet--' But at the thought of scattering these loved treasures
the blood leaped into Morris's check. 'I would rather die!' he
exclaimed, and, cramming his hat upon his head, strode forth into
the streets.
'I MUST raise funds,' he thought. 'My uncle being dead, the money
in the bank is mine, or would be mine but for the cursed
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