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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: rarities, and I have dealings with persons interested in numismatics
all over the world. I can make a profit on this purchase, just as
it stands; but there is a way, if I can get your approval, whereby I
can make every one of these leaden twenty-dollar pieces worth its
face in gold, and perhaps more. Grant me that approval, and I will
give part of my gains to your Mr. Richards, whose invulnerable
probity you have so justly and so cordially recognised tonight; his
share shall be ten thousand dollars, and I will hand him the money
to-morrow. [Great applause from the house. But the "invulnerable
probity" made the Richardses blush prettily; however, it went for
modesty, and did no harm.] If you will pass my proposition by a
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