The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: that fatal day; if he had, he would have recognized a certain
fighting glitter in his uncle's eye, and a certain chewing
movement of his lips, as old acquaintances. But even to the
inexpert these symptoms breathed of something dangerous.
'Well, well,' said Morris. 'I have no wish to bother you further
till we get to London.'
Joseph did not so much as look at him in answer; with tremulous
hands he produced a copy of the British Mechanic, and
ostentatiously buried himself in its perusal.
'I wonder what can make him so cantankerous?' reflected the
nephew. 'I don't like the look of it at all.' And he dubiously
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