Which sentence in this excerpt from James Joyce's "Araby" indicates that the bazaar is a place devoted to avarice, or greed?


I could not find any sixpenny entrance and, fearing that the bazaar would be closed, I passed in quickly through a turnstile, handing a shilling to a weary-looking man. (I found myself in a big hall girded at half its height by a gallery.) Nearly all the stalls were closed and the greater part of the hall was in darkness. (I recognized a silence like that which pervades a church after a service.) (I walked into the centre of the bazaar timidly.) A few people were gathered about the stalls which were still open. Before a curtain, over which the words Café Chantant were written in coloured lamps, two men were counting money on a salver. (I listened to the fall of the coins.)

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(I listened to the fall of the coins.) Is the passage you are looking for. 

Answer: (I listened to the fall of the coins).

Both "avarice" and "greed" refer to an excessive love, or obsession, with material wealth. Therefore, the answer would most likely discuss money, or people who greatly enjoy it. The passage states that two men were counting money, and that the narrator listened to the fall of the coins. This is a way of implying that the bazaar operates due to greed and avarice.