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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: love. At night, after working all day, they met with delight in
Ginevra's studio. Music refreshed their weariness. No expression of
regret or melancholy obscured the happy features of the young wife,
and never did she utter a complaint. She appeared to her Luigi with a
smile upon her lips and her eyes beaming. Each cherished a ruling
thought which would have made them take pleasure in a labor still more
severe; Ginevra said in her heart that she worked for Luigi, and Luigi
the same for Ginevra.
Sometimes, in the absence of her husband, the thought of the perfect
happiness she might have had if this life of love could have been
lived in the presence of her father and mother overcame the young
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