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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: uncertain in its consequences. Quietly at first, and then with
growing heat, he reviewed the advantages of backing out. It
involved a loss; but (come to think of it) no such great loss
after all; only that of the tontine, which had been always a
toss-up, which at bottom he had never really expected. He
reminded himself of that eagerly; he congratulated himself upon
his constant moderation. He had never really expected the
tontine; he had never even very definitely hoped to recover his
seven thousand eight hundred pounds; he had been hurried into the
whole thing by Michael's obvious dishonesty. Yes, it would
probably be better to draw back from this high-flying venture,
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