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My Object was mercantile.
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The speaker says their purpose was mercantile—that is, connected with trade, buying, or selling. The sentence presents commerce as the clear aim of what they were doing, without explaining any further details about the plan or activity.
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- Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords, 6 April 1838
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- Official Statement
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