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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: instantly obliterated from my memory by what happened, the young girl
realized his intention and straightened stiffly, while John, with the
rapidity of light, snatched the extended bill from Charley's hand, and
tearing it in four pieces, threw it in his face.
A foreign voice cackled from the automobile: "Oh la la! il a du panache!"
But Charley now disclosed himself to be a true man of the world--the
financial world--by picking the pieces out of the mud; and, while he
wiped them and enclosed them in his handkerchief and with perfect dignity
returned them to his pocket, he remarked simply, with a shrug: "As you
please." His accent also was ever so little foreign--that New York
downtown foreign, of the second generation, which stamps so, many of our
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