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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: more cultivated portion of the ignorant, his domestic life was
suddenly overwhelmed by orphans. The death of his younger brother
Jacob saddled him with the charge of two boys, Morris and John;
and in the course of the same year his family was still further
swelled by the addition of a little girl, the daughter of John
Henry Hazeltine, Esq., a gentleman of small property and fewer
friends. He had met Joseph only once, at a lecture-hall in
Holloway; but from that formative experience he returned home to
make a new will, and consign his daughter and her fortune to the
lecturer. Joseph had a kindly disposition; and yet it was not
without reluctance that he accepted this new responsibility,
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