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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: large scale--they won't touch a matter unless there are ten
thousand francs in it. It is composed of the most distinguished
of the men who are sent straight to the Assize Courts when they
come up for trial. They know the Code too well to risk their
necks when they are nabbed. Collin is their confidential agent
and legal adviser. By means of the large sums of money at his
disposal he has established a sort of detective system of his
own; it is widespread and mysterious in its workings. We have had
spies all about him for a twelvemonth, and yet we could not
manage to fathom his games. His capital and his cleverness are at
the service of vice and crime; this money furnishes the necessary
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