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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac: certain quaintness of detail was not wanting. It was built against a
neighboring house in such a fashion that the side with only one window
in each story, gave upon the street, and the front looked out upon a
yard where rose-bushes and buckhorn were growing along the wall on
either side. On the farther side, opposite the house, stood a shed, a
roof over two brick arches. A little wicket-gate gave entrance into
the gloomy place (made gloomier still by the great walnut-tree which
grew in the yard), but a double flight of steps, with an elaborately-
wrought but rust-eaten handrail, led to the house door. Inside the
house there were two rooms on each floor. The dining-room occupied
that part of the ground floor nearest the street, and the kitchen lay
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