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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: simplicity of Felix: one was nature, the other was society,--the true
and the false embodied. Noticing her daughter glowing with happiness,
exhaling her soul through the pores of her face, and beautiful with
the beauty of a young girl gathering the first roses of an indirect
declaration, Flavie had an impulse of jealousy in her heart. She came
across to Celeste and said in her ear:--
"You are not behaving well, my daughter; everybody is observing you;
you are compromising yourself by talking so long to Monsieur Felix
without knowing whether we approve of it."
"But, mamma, my godmother is here."
"Ah! pardon me, dear friend," said Madame Colleville; "I did not
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