The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: Conservative in politics.'
Mr Wickham, pleased to be in a luggage van, was flitting to and
fro like a gentlemanly butterfly.
'By Jingo!' he cried, 'here's something for you! "M. Finsbury, 16
John Street, Bloomsbury, London." M. stands for Michael, you sly
dog; you keep two establishments, do you?'
'O, that's Morris,' responded Michael from the other end of the
van, where he had found a comfortable seat upon some sacks. 'He's
a little cousin of mine. I like him myself, because he's afraid
of me. He's one of the ornaments of Bloomsbury, and has a
collection of some kind--birds' eggs or something that's supposed
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