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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lily of the Valley by Honore de Balzac: she would only be angry and leave me," I thought, "I could return to
Clochegourde."
The dog led me to an oak, from which, as I came up, Arabella galloped
crying out to me, "Come! away! away!" All that I could do was to
follow her to Saint Cyr, which we reached about midnight.
"That lady is in perfect health," said Arabella as she dismounted.
Those who know her can alone imagine the satire contained in that
remark, dryly said in a tone which meant, "I should have died!"
"I forbid you to utter any of your sarcasms about Madame de Mortsauf,"
I said.
"Do I displease your Grace in remarking upon the perfect health of one
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