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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: houseboat, and no Jimson, and no carrier's cart, and no piano;
and when Harker awakes on the ditchside, he may tell himself the
whole affair has been a dream.'
'Aha!' said Uncle Ned, 'but there's another man who will have a
different awakening. That fellow in the cart will find he has
been too clever by half.'
'Uncle Ned and Julia,' said Gideon, 'I am as happy as the King of
Tartary, my heart is like a threepenny-bit, my heels are like
feathers; I am out of all my troubles, Julia's hand is in mine.
Is this a time for anything but handsome sentiments? Why, there's
not room in me for anything that's not angelic! And when I think
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