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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: nineteen."
A storm of derisive applause broke out.
"Perhaps they all contain the secret. I move that you open them all
and read every signature that is attached to a note of that sort--
and read also the first eight words of the note."
"Second the motion!"
It was put and carried--uproariously. Then poor old Richards got
up, and his wife rose and stood at his side. Her head was bent
down, so that none might see that she was crying. Her husband gave
her his arm, and so supporting her, he began to speak in a quavering
voice:
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg | 
