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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: indispensable; but what was he to do when he was there? He had no
right to sign in his own name; and, with all the will in the
world, he seemed to lack the art of signing with his uncle's.
Under these circumstances, Morris could do nothing to
procrastinate the crash; and, when it came, when prying eyes
began to be applied to every joint of his behaviour, two
questions could not fail to be addressed, sooner or later, to a
speechless and perspiring insolvent. Where is Mr Joseph Finsbury?
and how about your visit to the bank? Questions, how easy to
put!--ye gods, how impossible to answer! The man to whom they
should be addressed went certainly to gaol, and--eh! what was
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