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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: 'difficult to get rid of'. He looked before, and spied at the
corner of the green lane a little country public-house embowered
in roses. 'I'll have a shy at it,' concluded the military
gentleman, and roundly proposed a glass. 'Well, I'm not a
drinking man,' said Harker.
'Look here, now,' cut in the other, 'I'll tell you who I am: I'm
Colour-Sergeant Brand of the Blankth. That'll tell you if I'm a
drinking man or not.' It might and it might not, thus a Greek
chorus would have intervened, and gone on to point out how very
far it fell short of telling why the sergeant was tramping a
country lane in tatters; or even to argue that he must have
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