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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Duchesse de Langeais by Honore de Balzac: heard her name softly spoken by the man who had been so hard in
the past.
"My brother," she said, drawing her sleeve under her veil,
perhaps to brush tears away, "I am Sister Theresa."
Then, turning to the Superior, she spoke in Spanish; the General
knew enough of the language to understand what she said perfectly
well; possibly he could have spoken it had he chosen to do so.
"Dear Mother, the gentleman presents his respects to you, and
begs you to pardon him if he cannot pay them himself, but he
knows neither of the languages which you speak----"
The aged nun bent her head slowly, with an expression of angelic
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