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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: appeared in the days of his glory or splendour. No! Neither of
these words will fit his success. There was never any glory or
splendour about that figure. Well, let us say in the days when he
was, according to the majority of the daily press, a financial force
working for the improvement of the character of the people. I'll
tell you how it came about.
At that time I used to know a podgy, wealthy, bald little man having
chambers in the Albany; a financier too, in his way, carrying out
transactions of an intimate nature and of no moral character; mostly
with young men of birth and expectations--though I dare say he
didn't withhold his ministrations from elderly plebeians either. He
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