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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: fashioned pieces of gold plate, the last remnants of their ill-
gotten wealth.
"Suppose we turn goldsmiths," said Schwartz to Hans as they
entered the large city. "It is a good knave's trade; we can put a
great deal of copper into the gold without anyone's finding it out."
The thought was agreed to be a very good one; they hired a
furnace and turned goldsmiths. But two slight circumstances
affected their trade: the first, that people did not approve of the
coppered gold; the second, that the two elder brothers, whenever
they had sold anything, used to leave little Gluck to mind the
furnace, and go and drink out the money in the alehouse next door.
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