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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac: "What's the matter?"
"I owe twenty-five francs, and they may wring my neck twenty-five
times before I can pay them."
"Well, I know how you can get five hundred," she said in his ear.
"Oh! by killing a man; but I prefer to live."
"Hold your tongue. Vaudoyer will give us five hundred francs if you
will let him catch your mother at a tree."
"I'd rather kill a man than sell my mother. There's your old
grandmother; why don't you sell her?"
"If I tried to, my father would get angry and stop the trick."
"That's true. Well, anyhow, my mother sha'n't go to prison, poor old
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