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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: everything was ready, and he was very pleased with his appearance.
The big leather riding-boots that went with the dress were just a
little too large for him, and he could only find one of the two
horse-pistols, but, on the whole, he was quite satisfied, and at a
quarter past one he glided out of the wainscoting and crept down
the corridor. On reaching the room occupied by the twins, which I
should mention was called the Blue Bed Chamber, on account of the
colour of its hangings, he found the door just ajar. Wishing to
make an effective entrance, he flung it wide open, when a heavy jug
of water fell right down on him, wetting him to the skin, and just
missing his left shoulder by a couple of inches. At the same
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