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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: shreds, powder, chemical dissolution, in fact I know not into what
form of utter ruin, as soon as the heir or the officers of the law
laid rough hands upon them; they disappeared as if afraid of being
publicly sold.
The population at Limoges was much concerned for these worthy des
Vanneaulx, who had two children; and yet, no sooner did the law lay
hands upon the reputed doer of the crime than the guilty personage
absorbed attention, became a hero, and the des Vanneaulx were
relegated into a corner of the picture.
Toward the end of March Madame Graslin began to feel some of those
pains which precede a first confinement and cannot be concealed. The
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