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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: quick panting of the launch sounded already faint and far off,
when Gideon was startled by a cry from Julia. Peering through the
window, he beheld her staring disconsolately downstream at the
fast-vanishing canoe. The barrister (whatever were his faults)
displayed on this occasion a promptitude worthy of his hero,
Robert Skill; with one effort of his mind he foresaw what was
about to follow; with one movement of his body he dropped to the
floor and crawled under the table.
Julia, on her part, was not yet alive to her position. She saw
she had lost the canoe, and she looked forward with something
less than avidity to her next interview with Mr Bloomfield; but
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