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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: of shoes stood in one corner; a night-table by the bed had
neither a door nor marble slab. There was not a trace of a fire
in the empty grate; the square walnut table with the crossbar
against which Father Goriot had crushed and twisted his posset-
dish stood near the hearth. The old man's hat was lying on a
broken-down bureau. An armchair stuffed with straw and a couple
of chairs completed the list of ramshackle furniture. From the
tester of the bed, tied to the ceiling by a piece of rag, hung a
strip of some cheap material in large red and black checks. No
poor drudge in a garret could be worse lodged than Father Goriot
in Mme. Vauquer's lodging-house. The mere sight of the room sent
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