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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: mean delay. And then the result might be a disappointment. Might
Armour not also be a disappointment? That I really could not say.
A new man is always a speculation, and departments, like
individuals, have got to take their luck.
The Viceroy was so delighted--everybody was so delighted--with the
medal picture that the merest breath blown among them would secure
Armour's nomination. Should I blow that breath? These happy
thoughts must always occur to somebody. This one had occurred to
me. Ten to one it would occur to nobody else, and last of all to
Armour himself. The advertisement might already be on its way home
to the 'Athenaeum'.
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