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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: excused I will take my leave. I thank you for the great favour
which you have shown me in granting my petition. I ask the Chair to
keep the sack for me until to-morrow, and to hand these three five-
hundred-dollar notes to Mr. Richards." They were passed up to the
Chair.
"At nine I will call for the sack, and at eleven will deliver the
rest of the ten thousand to Mr. Richards in person at his home.
Good-night."
Then he slipped out, and left the audience making a vast noise,
which was composed of a mixture of cheers, the "Mikado" song, dog-
disapproval, and the chant, "You are f-a-r from being a b-a-a-d man-
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