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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: judged him capable of fulfilling certain secret and diplomatic
functions which he confided to him and of which de Trailles acquitted
himself admirably. D'Arthez had for some time past mingled
sufficiently in political matters to know the man for what he was, and
he alone had sufficient strength and height of character to express
aloud what others thought or said in a whisper.
"Is it for her that you neglect the Chamber?" asked Baron de Nucingen
in his German accent.
"Ah! the princess is one of the most dangerous women a man can have
anything to do with. I owe to her the miseries of my marriage,"
exclaimed the Marquis d'Esgrignon.
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