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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: 'In case I don't make myself perfectly clear,' observed the
Australian, 'it's perhaps best to tell you candidly that I've
been lunching. It's a thing that may happen to any one.'
'O, certainly,' replied the affable barrister. 'But please be
under no sense of hurry. I can give you,' he added, thoughtfully
consulting his watch--'yes, I can give you the whole afternoon.'
'The business that brings me here,' resumed the Australian with
gusto, 'is devilish delicate, I can tell you. My friend Mr
Thomas, being an American of Portuguese extraction, unacquainted
with our habits, and a wealthy manufacturer of Broadwood
pianos--'
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