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Answer the question briefly:

There was something 'unusual' about the beggar. Explain

The beggar, with his distinctive grey eyes and beard, asked the narrator a very personal question about his dream in life, that too in English, which was a rare language for a beggar to know. Hence, he came off as being unusual.


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