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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: PRAED. But surely a clever bright fellow like you can make
something by your own brains.
FRANK. Oh yes, a little. [He takes out his money again]. I
made all that yesterday in an hour and a half. But I made it in
a highly speculative business. No, dear Praddy: even if Bessie
and Georgina marry millionaires and the governor dies after
cutting them off with a shilling, I shall have only four hundred
a year. And he wont die until he's three score and ten: he hasnt
originality enough. I shall be on short allowance for the next
twenty years. No short allowance for Viv, if I can help it. I
withdraw gracefully and leave the field to the gilded youth of
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