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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled A Dangerous Fortune about Times, Pilasters, City with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction.
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conversations.value: By the 1860s, the Pilasters are one of the world's greatest banking families, with connections that reach from the City of London to far-afield colonies. However, as the family grow ever richer in the shadow of oppression and tragedy, their very future is threatened - by the self-same ambition and greed that first earned them their fortune. 'A full-blooded melodrama, complete with moustache-twirling villains, saintly heroes, wronged women, and a lot of plot' Irish Times 'Banks, brothels, and a high body count...it's all there' Financial Times 'A compulsively readable, enjoyable thriller-cum-saga' Sunday Times
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conversations.value: By the 1860s, the Pilasters are one of the world's greatest banking families, with connections that reach from the City of London to far-afield colonies. However, as the family grow ever richer in the shadow of oppression and tragedy, their very future is threatened - by the self-same ambition and greed that first earned them their fortune. 'A full-blooded melodrama, complete with moustache-twirling villains, saintly heroes, wronged women, and a lot of plot' Irish Times 'Banks, brothels, and a high body count...
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conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: A Dangerous Fortune
  Do I care? thought Hugh. The bank had treated him badly and he was about to leave it. But despite that, he could not ignore this problem. He was still an employee, he would draw his salary at the end of the month, and he owed Pilasters his loyalty at least until then. He had to do something.
  What did Tonio want? The fact that he was showing Hugh the article before publishing it suggested that he wanted to make a deal. "What's your objective?" Hugh asked him. "Do you want us to stop financing the nitrate trade?"
  Tonio shook his head. "If Pilasters pulled out, someone else would take over—another bank with a thicker hide. No, we must be more subtle."
  It might work, too, Hugh thought. Investors would shy away from anything controversial. It struck him that Tonio had changed a lot, from the young tearaway who couldn't stop gambling into the sober adult who campaigned against ill-treatment of miners. "So why have you come to me?"
  Hugh shook his head. "Not crude at all. I admire your crusading spirit. The consequences for the bank don't affect me directly—I'm about to resign."
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conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
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conversations.value: A Dangerous Fortune
  Do I care? thought Hugh. The bank had treated him badly and he was about to leave it. But despite that, he could not ignore this problem. He was still an employee, he would draw his salary at the end of the month, and he owed Pilasters his loyalty at least until then. He had to do something.
  What did Tonio want? The fact that he was showing Hugh the article before publishing it suggested that he wanted to make a deal. "What's your objective?" Hugh asked him. "Do you want us to stop financing the nitrate trade?"
  Tonio shook his head. "If Pilasters pulled out, someone else would take over—another bank with a thicker hide. No, we must be more subtle."
  It might work, too, Hugh thought. Investors would shy away from anything controversial. It struck him that Tonio had changed a lot, from the young tearaway who couldn't stop gambling into the sober adult who campaigned against ill-treatment of miners. "So why have you come to me?"
  Hugh shook his head. "Not crude at all. I admire your crusading spirit. The consequences for the bank don't affect me directly—I'm about to resign.
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conversations.value: Give me four more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: He was tying up loose ends, completing projects he had already begun but not starting new ones. His mind kept returning to Micky Miranda and poor Solly. It maddened him to think that a man as good as Solly had been done away with by a reptile and parasite such as Micky. What he really wanted to do was strangle Micky with his bare hands. But he could not kill him; in fact there was not even any point in reporting his beliefs to the police, for he had no proof.
  His clerk, Jonas Mulberry, had been looking agitated all morning. Mulberry had come into the Partners' Room four or five times on different pretexts but had not said what was on his mind. Eventually Hugh divined that the man had something to say that he did not want the other partners to hear.
  A few minutes before midday Hugh went along the corridor to the telephone room. They had had the phone installed two years before, and they were already regretting the decision not to put it in the Partners' Room: each of them was called to the instrument several times a day.
  On the way he met Mulberry in the corridor. He stopped him and said: "Is there something on your mind?"
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conversations.value: Give me the last paragraph.
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conversations.value: The ripples from the stone had disappeared, and the surface of the water was immaculately still once again.