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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: "I ask the indulgence of the house while I explain this most painful
matter. I am sorry to say what I am about to say, since it must
inflict irreparable injury upon Mr. Billson, whom I have always
esteemed and respected until now, and in whose invulnerability to
temptation I entirely believed--as did you all. But for the
preservation of my own honour I must speak--and with frankness. I
confess with shame--and I now beseech your pardon for it--that I
said to the ruined stranger all of the words contained in the test-
remark, including the disparaging fifteen. [Sensation.] When the
late publication was made I recalled them, and I resolved to claim
the sack of coin, for by every right I was entitled to it. Now I
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