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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: The president took the mail-post, and reached Paris the next evening.
The morning after his arrival he went to see des Grassins, and
together they summoned the creditors to meet at the notary's office
where the vouchers had been deposited. Not a single creditor failed to
be present. Creditors though they were, justice must be done to them,
--they were all punctual. Monsieur de Bonfons, in the name of
Mademoiselle Grandet, paid them the amount of their claims with
interest. The payment of interest was a remarkable event in the
Parisian commerce of that day. When the receipts were all legally
registered, and des Grassins had received for his services the sum of
fifty thousand francs allowed to him by Eugenie, the president made
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