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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: when I barricade my door with a chest of drawers.'
'I'm awfully glad they are coming back soon,' said Gideon. 'This
business strikes me as excessively unsafe; if it goes on much
longer, I could provide you with a maiden aunt of mine, or my
landlady if you preferred.'
'Lend me an aunt!' cried Julia. 'O, what generosity! I begin to
think it must have been you that sent the Hercules.'
'Believe me,' cried the young man, 'I admire you too much to send
you such an infamous work of art..'
Julia was beginning to reply, when they were both startled by a
knocking at the door.
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