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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: that if he should ever be able he would repay me a thousandfold.
Now, then, I ask you this; could I expect--could I believe--could I
even remotely imagine--that, feeling as he did, he would do so
ungrateful a thing as to add those quite unnecessary fifteen words
to his test?--set a trap for me?--expose me as a slanderer of my own
town before my own people assembled in a public hall? It was
preposterous; it was impossible. His test would contain only the
kindly opening clause of my remark. Of that I had no shadow of
doubt. You would have thought as I did. You would not have
expected a base betrayal from one whom you had befriended and
against whom you had committed no offence. And so with perfect
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