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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: The best of them are ready to cut your throat. Yes! Business men,
gentlemen, any sort of men and women--out of spite, or to get
something. Oh yes, they can talk fair enough if they think there's
something to be got out of you . . . " His voice was a mere breath
yet every word came to Flora as distinctly as if charged with all
the moving power of passion . . . "My girl, I looked at them making
up to me and I would say to myself: What do I care for all that! I
am a business man. I am the great Mr. de Barral (yes, yes, some of
them twisted their mouths at it, but I WAS the great Mr. de Barral)
and I have my little girl. I wanted nobody and I have never had
anybody."
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