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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac: I was loving you at Sancerre, they were engaging me to be married
here, but I refused.--Oh! I was extremely distressed----"
"I am going," cried Dinah, starting wildly to her feet and turning to
the door.
"You will stay here, my Didine. All is at an end. And is this fortune
so lightly earned after all? Must I not marry a gawky, tow-haired
creature, with a red nose, the daughter of a notary, and saddle myself
with a stepmother who could give Madame de Piedefer points on the
score of bigotry--"
Pamela flew in, and whispered in Lousteau's ear:
"Madame Schontz!"
The Muse of the Department |
