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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: cunning, opened a bottle of white wine.
"Leave me my reason, at least."
"Oh, as to you losing your head -- you, monsieur!"
"Now my head is my own, and I mean to take better care of it
than ever. In the first place we shall talk business. How
fares our money-box?"
"Wonderfully well, monsieur. The twenty thousand livres I
had of you are still employed in my trade, in which they
bring me nine per cent. I give you seven, so I gain two by
you."
"And you are still satisfied?"
Ten Years Later | 
