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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: driven to ordering goods and merchandise on credit, and selling
them at a lower price for ready money. Victims of this treatment
began to press him seriously for their money or their goods.
Desperately he continued to fence them off with the long expected
windfall of the Duplessis inheritance.
Paris was getting too hot for him. Gay and irrepressible as he
was, the strain was severe. If he could only find some retreat
in the country where he might enjoy at once refuge from his
creditors and the rank and consequence of a country gentleman!
Nothing--no fear, no disappointment, no disaster--could check the
little grocer's ardent and overmastering desire to be a gentleman
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