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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 shall have one more good meal; I shall go to the Cafe Royal,
and may possibly be removed from there direct to the asylum.'
He wondered with morbid interest, as he descended the stairs, how
he would first betray his terrible condition--would he attack a
waiter? or eat glass?--and when he had mounted into a cab, he
bade the man drive to Nichol's, with a lurking fear that there
was no such place.
The flaring, gassy entrance of the cafe speedily set his mind at
rest; he was cheered besides to recognize his favourite waiter;
his orders appeared to be coherent; the dinner, when it came, was
quite a sensible meal, and he ate it with enjoyment. 'Upon my
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