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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: be cautious,' he added confidentially. 'One drunken man,
excellent business--two drunken men, all my eye.'
On the production of coffee and departure of the waiter, Michael
might have been observed to make portentous efforts after gravity
of mien. He looked his friend in the face (one eye perhaps a
trifle off), and addressed him thickly but severely.
'Enough of this fooling,' was his not inappropriate exordium. 'To
business. Mark me closely. I am an Australian. My name is John
Dickson, though you mightn't think it from my unassuming
appearance. You will be relieved to hear that I am rich, sir,
very rich. You can't go into this sort of thing too thoroughly,
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