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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: "Hush! are you not afraid they will discover us?" said Mademoiselle de
Verneuil, checking her companion.
The old man's laugh dissipated her fears.
"That iron back is set in a wall of granite two feet thick," he said.
"We can hear them, but they can't hear us."
Then he took the hand of his preserver and placed it near a crevice
through which a current of fresh air was blowing. She then perceived
that the opening was made in the shaft of the chimney.
"Ai! ai!" cried d'Orgemont. "The devil! how my legs smart!"
The Chouans, having finished their prayer, departed, and the old miser
again caught the hand of his companion and helped her to climb some
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