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It required no great discernment to see that Cheriton's declaration with regard to the missing will had shaken Canton to the centre of his being.
The ingrained selfishness of the man was written all over him. Even at that moment, with the dead body of his benefactor lying in the house, he was thinking of his own interests to the exclusion of everything else.