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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: complexion, blue eyes, black hair. In his figure, manner, and his
whole bearing it was easy to see that he had either come of a
noble family, or that, from his earliest childhood, he had been
gently bred. If he was careful of his wardrobe, only taking last
year's clothes into daily wear, still upon occasion he could
issue forth as a young man of fashion. Ordinarily he wore a
shabby coat and waistcoat, the limp black cravat, untidily
knotted, that students affect, trousers that matched the rest of
his costume, and boots that had been resoled.
Vautrin (the man of forty with the dyed whiskers) marked a
transition stage between these two young people and the others.
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