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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: go to ruin like a house of cards. There, now, I've made confession,
and I feel better; I am a humbug, and I've been one all my life,
without knowing it. Let no man call me honest again--I will not
have it."
"I-- Well, Mary, I feel a good deal as you do: I certainly do. It
seems strange, too, so strange. I never could have believed it--
never."
A long silence followed; both were sunk in thought. At last the
wife looked up and said:
"I know what you are thinking, Edward."
Richards had the embarrassed look of a person who is caught.
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