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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: estimate the part played by such enormous and miscellaneous
repositories in the education of the people. But this (though
interesting in itself) partakes of the nature of a digression;
and what I was about to ask you was this: Are you yourself a
student of the daily press?'
'There is not much in the papers to interest an artist,' returned
Pitman.
'In that case,' resumed Joseph, 'an advertisement which has
appeared the last two days in various journals, and reappears
this morning, may possibly have failed to catch your eye. The
name, with a trifling variation, bears a strong resemblance to
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