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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris:
"But you and I have played like two men playing," exclaimed Condy.
"How would it look if Sargeant, say, should give me back the money
he had won from me? What a cad I would be to take it!"
"That's just it--we've not played like two men. Then I WOULD have
been a gambler. I've played with you because I thought it would
make a way for you to break off with the habit; and knowing as I
did how fond you were of playing cards and how bad it was for you,
how wicked it would have been for me to have played with you in
any other spirit! Don't you see? And as it has turned out, you've
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