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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: which he was now voyaging as a review of these various anxieties.
I have thrown them (for the reader's convenience) into a certain
order; but in the mind of one poor human equal they whirled
together like the dust of hurricanes. With the same obliging
preoccupation, I have put a name to each of his distresses; and
it will be observed with pity that every individual item would
have graced and commended the cover of a railway novel.
Anxiety the First: Where is the Body? or, The Mystery of Bent
Pitman. It was now manifestly plain that Bent Pitman (as was to
be looked for from his ominous appellation) belonged to the
darker order of the criminal class. An honest man would not have
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