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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Emma McChesney & Co. by Edna Ferber: He would have made the most splendid specimen of North American
hotel clerk look like a scullery boy. Mrs. McChesney spent two
whole days in Buenos Aires before she discovered that she could
paralyze this personage with a peso. A peso is forty-three
cents.
Her experience at Bahia and at Rio de Janeiro had taught her
things. So for two days, haunted, as she was, by visions of Fat
Ed Meyers coming up close behind her, she possessed her soul in
patience and waited. On the great firm of Pages y Hernandez
rested the success of this expedition. When she thought of her
little trick on Senor Pages, her blithe spirits sank. Suppose,
Emma McChesney & Co. |
