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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: semi-venerable figure on the streets in which he loved to wander.
This was the more to be deplored because Masterman had led (even
to the least particular) a model British life. Industry,
regularity, respectability, and a preference for the four per
cents are understood to be the very foundations of a green old
age. All these Masterman had eminently displayed, and here he
was, ab agendo, at seventy-three; while Joseph, barely two years
younger, and in the most excellent preservation, had disgraced
himself through life by idleness and eccentricity. Embarked in
the leather trade, he had early wearied of business, for which he
was supposed to have small parts. A taste for general
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