The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: change, but came back with the manager, a bald-
headed man with a shining face, who was holding
the coupon in his fat hand.
"Your money is no good," he said, showing the
coupon, but apparently determined not to give it
back.
"The coupon must be all right. I got it from
a gentleman."
"It is bad, I tell you. The coupon is forged."
"Forged? Give it back to me."
"I will not. You fellows have got to be pun-
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