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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: a secondary figure; and the cares and delights of empire devolved
entirely upon Morris. That these are inextricably intermixed is
one of the commonplaces with which the bland essayist consoles
the incompetent and the obscure, but in the case of Morris the
bitter must have largely outweighed the sweet. He grudged no
trouble to himself, he spared none to others; he called the
servants in the morning, he served out the stores with his own
hand, he took soundings of the sherry, he numbered the remainder
biscuits; painful scenes took place over the weekly bills, and
the cook was frequently impeached, and the tradespeople came and
hectored with him in the back parlour upon a question of three
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