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: of what we are; through him the world will always henceforth know
what we are. We do not know who he is, but in your name I utter
your gratitude, and ask you to raise your voices in indorsement."
The house rose in a body and made the walls quake with the thunders
of its thankfulness for the space of a long minute. Then it sat
down, and Mr. Burgess took an envelope out of his pocket. The house
held its breath while he slit the envelope open and took from it a
slip of paper. He read its contents--slowly and impressively--the
audience listening with tranced attention to this magic document,
each of whose words stood for an ingot of gold:
"'The remark which I made to the distressed stranger was this: "You
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg |