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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gobseck by Honore de Balzac: Francais, as you see it of an evening; he had partly risen as if to
bow, and the skull cap that covered the top of his head, and the
narrow strip of sallow forehead exhibited, completed his likeness to
the man of marble.
" 'I have no money to spare except for my own clients,' said he.
" 'So you are cross because I may have tried in other quarters to ruin
myself?' laughed the Count.
" 'Ruin yourself!' repeated Gobseck ironically.
" 'Were you about to remark that it is impossible to ruin a man who
has nothing?' inquired the dandy. 'Why, I defy you to find a better
STOCK in Paris!' he cried, swinging round on his heels.
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