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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 old cooper had calculated on the power of time, which, as he used
to say, is a pretty good devil after all. By the end of the third year
des Grassins wrote to Grandet that he had brought the creditors to
agree to give up their claims for ten per cent on the two million four
hundred thousand francs still due by the house of Grandet. Grandet
answered that the notary and the broker whose shameful failures had
caused the death of his brother were still living, that they might now
have recovered their credit, and that they ought to be sued, so as to
get something out of them towards lessening the total of the deficit.
By the end of the fourth year the liabilities were definitely
estimated at a sum of twelve hundred thousand francs. Many
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