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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: revolves all manner of means, and gradually murder presents
itself as the only way. The horrid suggestion fixes itself in
his mind, and at last he communicates it to his wife. At first
she resists, then yields to the temptation. The plan is
ingenious. The wife is to disappear to America and be given out
as dead. The husband will then marry his attractive kinswoman,
persuade her to make a will in his favour, poison her and, the
fortune secured, rejoin his wife. As if to help this cruel plan,
the young lady has developed a sentimental affection for her
relative. The wife goes to America, the husband marries the
young lady. He commences to poison her, but, in the presence of
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