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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: voice more than I had ever known him do to me. "And after all, if he
had not been here to give you his arm you would not have gone."
"You are mistaken; I should have gone alone; for your servant, being
master here, refused to accompany me."
"But you must certainly admit that if any acquaintance had met you at
half-past nine o'clock walking arm-in-arm with Monsieur Dorlange the
thing would have seemed to them, to say the least, singular."
Pretending to discover what I had known for the last hour, I
exclaimed:--
"Is it possible that after sixteen years of married life you do me the
honor to be jealous. Now I see why, in spite of your respect for
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