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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: VIVIE. Where did you get it?
FRANK. Gambling, Viv: gambling. Poker.
VIVIE. Pah! It's meaner than stealing it. No: I'm not coming.
[She sits down to work at the table, with her back to the glass
door, and begins turning over the papers].
FRANK [remonstrating piteously] But, my dear Viv, I want to talk
to you ever so seriously.
VIVIE. Very well: sit down in Honoria's chair and talk here. I
like ten minutes chat after tea. [He murmurs]. No use groaning:
I'm inexorable. [He takes the opposite seat disconsolately].
Pass that cigar box, will you?
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