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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: booking-office.
'What names are we to take?' enquired the latter, anxiously
adjusting the window-glass spectacles which he had been suffered
on this occasion to assume.
'There's no choice for you, my boy,' returned Michael. 'Bent
Pitman or nothing. As for me, I think I look as if I might be
called Appleby; something agreeably old-world about
Appleby--breathes of Devonshire cider. Talking of which, suppose
you wet your whistle? the interview is likely to be trying.'
'I think I'll wait till afterwards,' returned Pitman; 'on the
whole, I think I'll wait till the thing's over. I don't know if
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