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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: "Lucien and God fill my heart," said she with ingenuous pathos.
"You might have said God and Lucien," answered the priest, smiling.
"You remind me of the purpose of my visit. Omit nothing that concerns
that young man."
"You have come from him?" she asked, with a tender look that would
have touched any other priest! "Oh, he thought I should do it!"
"No," replied the priest; "it is not your death, but your life that we
are interested in. Come, explain your position toward each other."
"In one word," said she.
The poor child quaked at the priest's stern tone, but as a woman
quakes who has long ceased to be surprised at brutality.
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