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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: of the back stock, and the figure had gone up. Even the manager
appeared elated. As for Morris, who had almost forgotten the
meaning of good news, he longed to sob like a little child; he
could have caught the manager (a pallid man with startled
eyebrows) to his bosom; he could have found it in his generosity
to give a cheque (for a small sum) to every clerk in the
counting-house. As he sat and opened his letters a chorus of airy
vocalists sang in his brain, to most exquisite music, 'This whole
concern may be profitable yet, profitable yet, profitable yet.'
To him, in this sunny moment of relief, enter a Mr Rodgerson, a
creditor, but not one who was expected to be pressing, for his
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