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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: sandwiches, tea, and an occasional glass of bitter beer, a man
can live luxuriously in London for fourteen pounds twelve
shillings per annum.'
'Yes, I know,' returned Michael, 'but that's not including
clothes, washing, or boots. The whole thing, with cigars and
occasional sprees, costs me over seven hundred a year.'
But this was Michael's last interruption. He listened in
good-humoured silence to the remainder of his uncle's lecture,
which speedily branched to political reform, thence to the theory
of the weather-glass, with an illustrative account of a bora in
the Adriatic; thence again to the best manner of teaching
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