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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: so marked was the effect that he was next year elected honorary
president of the institution, an office of less than no
emolument--since the holder was expected to come down with a
donation--but one which highly satisfied his self-esteem.
While Joseph was thus building himself up a reputation among the
more cultivated portion of the ignorant, his domestic life was
suddenly overwhelmed by orphans. The death of his younger brother
Jacob saddled him with the charge of two boys, Morris and John;
and in the course of the same year his family was still further
swelled by the addition of a little girl, the daughter of John
Henry Hazeltine, Esq., a gentleman of small property and fewer
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