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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: Beverly explain it himself the whole wise philosophic system of joining
with the Replacers in order that you be not replaced yourself.
"In his shoes mightn't I do the same?" he surmised. "I fear I'm not as
Spartan as my aunts--only pray don't mention it to them!"
And then, because I had been answering him with single syllables, or with
nods, or not at all, he taxed me with my taciturnity; he even went so far
as to ask me what thoughts kept me so silent--which I did not tell him.
"I am wondering," I told him instead, "how much they steal every week."
"Those financiers?"
"Yes. Bohm is president of an insurance company, and Charley's a
director, and reorganizes railroads."
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