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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: living on hot muffins? One comfort,' was his grim reflection, 'he
can't cut and run--he's got to stay; he's as helpless as the
dead.' And then he broke forth again: 'Complains, does he? and
he's never even heard of Bent Pitman! If he had what I have on my
mind, he might complain with a good grace.'
But these were not honest arguments, or not wholly honest; there
was a struggle in the mind of Morris; he could not disguise from
himself that his brother John was miserably situated at
Browndean, without news, without money, without bedclothes,
without society or any entertainment; and by the time he had been
shaved and picked a hasty breakfast at a coffee tavern, Morris
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