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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: 'That'll raise the average.'
An hour later a cart came up the lane, and the lawyer's piano--a
momentous Broadwood grand--was deposited in Mr Pitman's studio.
CHAPTER VIII. In Which Michael Finsbury Enjoys a Holiday
Punctually at eight o'clock next morning the lawyer rattled
(according to previous appointment) on the studio door. He found
the artist sadly altered for the worse--bleached, bloodshot, and
chalky--a man upon wires, the tail of his haggard eye still
wandering to the closet. Nor was the professor of drawing less
inclined to wonder at his friend. Michael was usually attired in
the height of fashion, with a certain mercantile brilliancy best
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