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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: most famous actress of the time might have envied her. She went
straight up to the desk. Longueville looked up, put the patterns in
his pocket with distracting coolness, bowed to Mademoiselle de
Fontaine, and came forward, looking at her keenly.
"Mademoiselle," he said to the shopgirl, who followed him, looking
very much disturbed, "I will send to settle that account; my house
deals in that way. But here," he whispered into her ear, as he gave
her a thousand-franc note, "take this--it is between ourselves.--You
will forgive me, I trust, mademoiselle," he added, turning to Emilie.
"You will kindly excuse the tyranny of business matters."
"Indeed, monsieur, it seems to me that it is no concern of mine,"
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