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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: enthusiasts mounted Wilson on a big friend's shoulder and were going
to fetch him in triumph to the platform. The Chair's voice now rose
above the noise:
"Order! To your places! You forget that there is still a document
to be read." When quiet had been restored he took up the document,
and was going to read it, but laid it down again saying "I forgot;
this is not to be read until all written communications received by
me have first been read." He took an envelope out of his pocket,
removed its enclosure, glanced at it--seemed astonished--held it out
and gazed at it--stared at it.
Twenty or thirty voices cried out
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