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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: the legal profession as they are.'
'Then, in the third,' resumed the drawing-master, 'if it's Uncle
Tim, of course, our fortune's made.'
'It's not Uncle Tim, though,' said the lawyer.
'Have you observed that very remarkable expression: SOMETHING TO
HIS ADVANTAGE?' enquired Pitman shrewdly.
'You innocent mutton,' said Michael, 'it's the seediest
commonplace in the English language, and only proves the
advertiser is an ass. Let me demolish your house of cards for you
at once. Would Uncle Tim make that blunder in your name?--in
itself, the blunder is delicious, a huge improvement on the gross
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