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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: attached no importance to it, thinking a draught had blown it there.
That Mr. Billson would read a private paper was a thing which could
not occur to me; he was an honourable man, and he would be above
that. If you will allow me to say it, I think his extra word 'VERY'
stands explained: it is attributable to a defect of memory. I was
the only man in the world who could furnish here any detail of the
test-mark--by HONOURABLE means. I have finished."
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the
mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions
of an audience not practised in the tricks and delusions of oratory.
Wilson sat down victorious. The house submerged him in tides of
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