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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: to hide Heaven knows what deficiency. She examined the empty
egg-nog glass, inquired what the evening paper had said about the
weather, and then stalked into the dressing-room, and prepared, with
much ostentatious creaking, to sit up all night.
We fell silent again, while McKnight traced a rough outline of the
berths on the white table-cover, and puzzled it out slowly. It was
something like this:
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