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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: were disguised. Why, Pitman, what the devil's the use of you? why
couldn't you have reminded me of that?'
'I never even knew there was a cart to be ordered,' said the
artist. 'But I can take off the disguise again,' he suggested
eagerly.
'You would find it rather a bother to put on your beard,'
observed the lawyer. 'No, it's a false step; the sort of thing
that hangs people,' he continued, with eminent cheerfulness, as
he sipped his brandy; 'and it can't be retraced now. Off to the
mews with you, make all the arrangements; they're to take the
piano from here, cart it to Victoria, and dispatch it thence by
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