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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: his dreadful tools. "The moll is a beauty; she is well informed, and
stands by her mates, and a first-rate hand. Yes, la Gonore has made a
new man of you! What a flat you must be to risk your nut when you have
a trip like her at home! You noodle; you should have set up some
respectable little shop and lived quietly.--And what does she do?"
"She is settled in the Rue Sainte-Barbe, managing a house----"
"And she is to be your legatee? Ah, my dear boy, this is what such
sluts bring us to when we are such fools as to love them."
"Yes, but don't you give her anything till I am done for."
"It is a sacred trust," said Jacques Collin very seriously.
"And nothing to the pals?"
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