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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: brace him up.'
'And that reminds me,' observed the excellent Pitman, 'that I
fear I displayed a most ungrateful temper. I had no right, I see,
to resent expressions, wounding as they were, which were in no
sense directed.'
'That's all right,' cried Michael, getting on the cart. 'Not a
word more, Pitman. Very proper feeling on your part; no man of
self-respect can stand by and hear his alias insulted.'
The rain had now ceased, Michael was fairly sober, the body had
been disposed of, and the friends were reconciled. The return to
the mews was therefore (in comparison with previous stages of the
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