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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: cost of "getting ahead" of some one less alert to seize the
chance; the victim of his ingenuity was young Robert Elwell, who
had "put him on" to the Blue Star scheme.
Parvis, at Mary's first startled cry, had thrown her a sobering
glance through his impartial glasses.
"Bob Elwell wasn't smart enough, that's all; if he had been, he
might have turned round and served Boyne the same way. It's the
kind of thing that happens every day in business. I guess it's
what the scientists call the survival of the fittest," said Mr.
Parvis, evidently pleased with the aptness of his analogy.
Mary felt a physical shrinking from the next question she tried
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