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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gobseck by Honore de Balzac: jokingly gave me). 'When I ask you for thirteen per cent, it is all in
the way of business; look into it, see if you can pay it; I don't like
a man to agree too easily. Is it too much?'
" 'No,' said I, 'I will make up for it by working a little harder.'
" 'Gad! your clients will pay for it!' said he, looking at me wickedly
out of the corner of his eyes.
" 'No, by all the devils in hell!' cried I, 'it shall be I who will
pay. I would sooner cut my hand off than flay people.'
" 'Good-night,' said Daddy Gobseck.
" 'Why, fees are all according to scale,' I added.
" 'Not for compromises and settlements out of Court, and cases where
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