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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: twirling Dolly's note between his finger and thumb, and feigning to
be surprised.
'I supposed you'd want to have it,' retorted Hugh. 'Burn one, burn
all, I thought.'
'My devil-may-care acquaintance,' said Mr Chester--'really if you
do not draw some nicer distinctions, your career will be cut short
with most surprising suddenness. Don't you know that the letter
you brought to me, was directed to my son who resides in this very
place? And can you descry no difference between his letters and
those addressed to other people?'
'If you don't want it,' said Hugh, disconcerted by this reproof,
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