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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: and I thank God I am an Englishman--and all that. But not--not
the police, Gid.'
'Then you desert me?' said Gideon. 'Say it plainly.'
'Far from it! far from it!' protested Mr Bloomfield. 'I only
propose caution. Common sense, Gid, should always be an
Englishman's guide.'
'Will you let me speak?' said Julia. 'I think Gideon had better
leave this dreadful houseboat, and wait among the willows over
there. If the piano comes, then he could step out and take it in;
and if the police come, he could slip into our houseboat, and
there needn't be any more Jimson at all. He could go to bed, and
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