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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: notorious that the commercial note, bearing this or that signature, is
liable to the fluctuation of all commercial values, rises or falls in
the market, is dear at one moment, and is worth nothing at another,
the courts decide--ah! how stupid I am, I beg your pardon--I am
inclined to think you could buy up your brother's debts for twenty-
five per cent."
"D-d-did you c-c-call him Je-Je-Jeremy B-Ben?"
"Bentham, an Englishman.'
"That's a Jeremy who might save us a lot of lamentations in business,"
said the notary, laughing.
"Those Englishmen s-sometimes t-t-talk sense," said Grandet. "So,
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