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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: "Oh yes, you have such notions because you are the boss. Your nut is
always square on your shoulders--but I----"
"In short, a word of good advice in your position is like broth to a
dead man," said Jacques Collin, with a serpentlike gaze at his old
pal.
"True enough!" said la Pouraille, looking dubious. "But give me the
broth, all the same. If it does not suit my stomach, I can warm my
feet in it----"
"Here you are nabbed by the Justice, with five robberies and three
murders, the latest of them those of two rich and respectable
folks. . . . Now, juries do not like to see respectable folks killed.
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