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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: worse.'
'And what am I to do?' complained the victim. 'How can I
entertain a friend?'
'My dear Johnny, if you don't think the tontine worth a little
trouble, say so, and I'll give the business up.'
'You're dead certain of the figures, I suppose?' asked John.
'Well'--with a deep sigh--'send me the Pink Un and all the comic
papers regularly. I'll face the music.'
As afternoon drew on, the cottage breathed more thrillingly of
its native marsh; a creeping chill inhabited its chambers; the
fire smoked, and a shower of rain, coming up from the channel on
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