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informative (providing desired information)
- He then had it returned and obtained another—a most instructive incident, since it proved conclusively to my mind that we were dealing with a real hound, as no other supposition could explain this anxiety to obtain an old boot and this indifference to a new one.Chapter 15 — A Retrospection (54% in)
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