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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: Italy; a thing positively wrong, a thing of which a man of my
principles and in my responsible position should have taken (as I
now see too late) no part whatever.'
'This sounds like very serious work,' said the lawyer. 'It will
require a great deal of drink, Pitman.'
'I took the liberty of--in short, of being prepared for you,'
replied the artist, pointing to a kettle, a bottle of gin, a
lemon, and glasses. Michael mixed himself a grog, and offered the
artist a cigar.
'No, thank you,' said Pitman. 'I used occasionally to be rather
partial to it, but the smell is so disagreeable about the
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