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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: should be attacked by the twins. The final blow he received
occurred on the 19th of September. He had gone downstairs to the
great entrance-hall, feeling sure that there, at any rate, he would
be quite unmolested, and was amusing himself by making satirical
remarks on the large Saroni photographs of the United States
Minister and his wife, which had now taken the place of the
Canterville family pictures. He was simply but neatly clad in a
long shroud, spotted with churchyard mould, had tied up his jaw
with a strip of yellow linen, and carried a small lantern and a
sexton's spade. In fact, he was dressed for the character of
'Jonas the Graveless, or the Corpse-Snatcher of Chertsey Barn,' one
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