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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: This extract runs as follows:--
"You may recall that our mutual and dear friend, old Allan Quatermain,
left me the sole executor of his will, which he signed before he set out
with my brother Henry for Zuvendis, where he was killed. The Court,
however, not being satisfied that there was any legal proof of his
death, invested the capital funds in trustee securities, and by my
advice let his place in Yorkshire to a tenant who has remained in
occupation of it during the last two decades. Now that tenant is dead,
and at the earnest prayer of the Charities which benefit under
Quatermain's will, and of myself--for in my uncertain state of health I
have for long been most anxious to wind up this executorship--about
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