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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: shock, God has revealed Himself. You are like the pagan Orestes; make
yourself another Paul."
"Your words have changed me utterly," she cried. "Now--oh! now I want
to live."
"The spirit conquers," thought the modest rector, as he joyfully took
his leave. He had cast nourishment before a soul hunted into secret
despair by giving to its repentance the form of a good and noble
action.
XII
THE SOUL OF FORESTS
Veronique wrote to Monsieur Grossetete on the morrow. A few days later
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