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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: will. This part of the enterprise needed the active and faithful arms
of conscientious workers. Chance provided them with a tract of land
without natural obstacles, a long even stretch of plain, where the
waters, having a fall of ten feet, could be distributed at will.
Nothing hindered the finest agricultural results, while at the same
time, the eye would be gratified by one of those magnificent sheets of
verdure which are the pride and the wealth of Lombardy. Gerard sent
for an old and experienced foreman, who had already been employed by
him elsewhere in this capacity, named Fresquin.
Madame Graslin wrote to Grossetete, requesting him to negotiate for
her a loan of two hundred and fifty thousand francs, secured on her
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