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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: there. If the piano comes, then he could step out and take it in;
and if the police come, he could slip into our houseboat, and
there needn't be any more Jimson at all. He could go to bed, and
we could burn his clothes (couldn't we?) in the steam-launch; and
then really it seems as if it would be all right. Mr Bloomfield
is so respectable, you know, and such a leading character, it
would be quite impossible even to fancy that he could be mixed up
with it.'
'This young lady has strong common sense,' said the Squirradical.
'O, I don't think I'm at all a fool,' said Julia, with
conviction.
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