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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: Men come to the City during this week, it is true,
but their thoughts are elsewhere--on the moors, on the
blue sea, on the glacier or the fiord, or the pleasant
German pine forests.
To the great mass of City people; this August in question
began in a normal enough fashion. To one little group
of operators, however, and to the widening circle
of brokers, bankers, and other men of affairs whose
interests were more or less involved with those of
this group, it was a season of keen perturbation.
A combat of an extraordinary character was going on--a
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