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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: There was even a Bible. I opened it thoughtlessly, half in idle
curiosity, to see whether it was ever used, only to replace it in
haste. For at the very page that my eye fell on, I remember it
was one of my favourite chapters in Isaiah, was a stamp in violet
ink marked H. M.'s Prison--well, I won't say where.
I may state, however, that the clue enabled me in after years to
learn an episode in this man's life which had brought about his
ruin. There is no need to repeat it or to say more than that
gambling and an evil use of his medical knowledge to provide the
money to pay his debts, were the cause of his fall. The strange
thing is that he should have kept the book which had probably
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