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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: give you my piano; we'll bring it round this very night. Tomorrow
we rip the fittings out, deposit the--our friend--inside, plump
the whole on a cart, and carry it to the chambers of a young
gentleman whom I know by sight.'
'Whom do you know by sight?' repeated Pitman.
'And what is more to the purpose,' continued Michael, 'whose
chambers I know better than he does himself. A friend of mine--I
call him my friend for brevity; he is now, I understand, in
Demerara and (most likely) in gaol--was the previous occupant. I
defended him, and I got him off too--all saved but honour; his
assets were nil, but he gave me what he had, poor gentleman, and
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