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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: A Voice. "Good--that settles THAT!"
The Tanner. "Mr. Chairman, one thing is now plain: one of these
men has been eavesdropping under the other one's bed, and filching
family secrets. If it is not unparliamentary to suggest it, I will
remark that both are equal to it. [The Chair. "Order! order!"] I
withdraw the remark, sir, and will confine myself to suggesting that
IF one of them has overheard the other reveal the test-remark to his
wife, we shall catch him now."
A Voice. "How?"
The Tanner. "Easily. The two have not quoted the remark in exactly
the same words. You would have noticed that, if there hadn't been a
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