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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: to buy the shares he needed, at the ruling price, and he
happened to mention that his niece's marriage portion
would have to be sacrificed. Well, then, do you know,
that letter in my pocket said something to me....And--well,
that's the story. The girl' s portion, I wormed it
out of him, was ten thousand...and I struck that much
off the figure that I allowed him to buy his shares,
and save his firm, for....It was all the letter that did it,
mind you!"
He concluded the halting narrative amid a marked silence.
The ladies looked at him and at each other, but they
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