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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gobseck by Honore de Balzac: up; but you yourselves are sponges, just as I am, and death will give
you a squeeze some day.'
" 'That is possible.'
" 'If there were no spendthrifts, what would become of you? The pair
of us are like soul and body.'
" 'Precisely so.'
" 'Come, now, give us your hand, Grandaddy Gobseck, and be magnanimous
if this is "true" and "possible" and "precisely so." '
" 'You come to me,' the usurer answered coldly, 'because Girard,
Palma, Werbrust, and Gigonnet are full up of your paper; they are
offering it at a loss of fifty per cent; and as it is likely they only
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