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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: domineering baronet (who was his only friend upon his native
soil) he was now returning to report. The case of these
tweedsuited wanderers is unique. We have all seen them entering
the table d'hote (at Spezzia, or Grdtz, or Venice) with a genteel
melancholy and a faint appearance of having been to India and not
succeeded. In the offices of many hundred hotels they are known
by name; and yet, if the whole of this wandering cohort were to
disappear tomorrow, their absence would be wholly unremarked. How
much more, if only one--say this one in the ventilating
cloth--should vanish! He had paid his bills at Bournemouth; his
worldly effects were all in the van in two portmanteaux, and
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