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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: of hardihood. She saw that her mother had been weeping; the redness of
those withered eyelids shook her heart, but she hid her emotion. No
one touched the dinner which was served to them. A horror of food is
one of the chief symptoms which reveal a great crisis in life. All
three rose from table without having addressed a single word to one
another.
When Ginevra had placed herself between her father and mother in the
great and gloomy salon, Piombo tried to speak, but his voice failed
him; he tried to walk, but he had no strength in his legs. He returned
to his seat and rang the bell.
"Pietro," he said, at last, to the footman, "light the fire; I am
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