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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: 'I wasn't thinking so much of you,' returned Mr Chandler
thoughtfully. 'I was thinking of my friend Watts as keeps the
'ouse; he's a friend of mine, you see, and he helped me through
my trouble last year. And I was thinking, would it be fair-like
on Watts to saddle him with an old party like you, who might be
the death of him with general information. Would it be fair to
the 'ouse?' enquired Mr Chandler, with an air of candid appeal.
'Mark me,' cried the old gentleman with spirit. 'It was kind in
you to bring me here for nothing, but it gives you no right to
address me in such terms. Here's a shilling for your trouble;
and, if you do not choose to set me down at the "Tregonwell
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