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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: buying those of artists with reputations; consequently, her paintings
had little chance. Ginevra offered them for almost nothing, but
without success.
The situation of the household now began to be alarming. The souls of
the husband and wife floated on the ocean of their happiness, love
overwhelmed them with its treasures, while poverty rose, like a
skeleton, amid their harvest of joy. Yet, all the while, they hid from
each other their secret anxiety. When Ginevra felt like weeping as she
watched Luigi's worn and suffering face, she redoubled her caresses;
and Luigi, keeping his dark forebodings in the depths of his soul,
expressed to his Ginevra the tenderest love. They sought a
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