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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: Thorpe resumed. "I don't want you to suffer by this
unlooked-for change in the shape of things. You hold
two thousand shares--only by accident they're the wrong
kind of shares. Very well: I'll make them the right kind
of shares. I'll have a transfer sent to you tomorrow,
so that you can return those vendor's shares to me,
and in exchange for them I'll give you two thousand
fully-paid ordinary shares. You can sell these at once,
if you like, or you can hold them on over one more settlement,
whichever you please."
"This is very munificent," remarked Lord Chaldon, after an
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