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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: fill in the date. The rate of interest is stiff enough to silence
any scruples on your part; it gives you the right to call me a
Jew. You can call quits with me on the score of gratitude. I am
quite willing that you should despise me to-day, because I am
sure that you will have a kindlier feeling towards me later on.
You will find out fathomless depths in my nature, enormous and
concentrated forces that weaklings call vices, but you will never
find me base or ungrateful. In short, I am neither a pawn nor a
bishop, but a castle, a tower of strength, my boy."
"What manner of man are you?" cried Eugene. "Were you created to
torment me?"
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