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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: staring pheasants' eyes, and on arriving at the club, went straight
to the library, rang the bell, and ordered the waiter to bring him
a lemon-and-soda, and a book on Toxicology. He had fully decided
that poison was the best means to adopt in this troublesome
business. Anything like personal violence was extremely
distasteful to him, and besides, he was very anxious not to murder
Lady Clementina in any way that might attract public attention, as
he hated the idea of being lionised at Lady Windermere's, or seeing
his name figuring in the paragraphs of vulgar society - newspapers.
He had also to think of Sybil's father and mother, who were rather
old-fashioned people, and might possibly object to the marriage if
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