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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: the witness of an incident strangely connected with the fortunes
of his house. A packing-case of cyclopean bulk was borne along
the platform by some dozen of tottering porters, and ultimately,
to the delight of a considerable crowd, hoisted on board the van.
It is often the cheering task of the historian to direct
attention to the designs and (if it may be reverently said) the
artifices of Providence. In the luggage van, as Joseph was borne
out of the station of Southampton East upon his way to London,
the egg of his romance lay (so to speak) unhatched. The huge
packing-case was directed to lie at Waterloo till called for, and
addressed to one 'William Dent Pitman'; and the very next
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