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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: Therefore you may feel more pride in being rejected than you could
have felt in being chosen."
Everybody laughed.
Simon Giguet then produced silence by demanding speech of the
chairman, whose shirt was already wet and became still wetter as he
mustered all his courage to say:--
"Monsieur Simon Giguet has the floor."
IV
THE FIRST PARLIAMENTARY TEMPEST
"Messieurs," said Simon Giguet, "I ask permission to thank Monsieur
Achille Pigoult, who, although our meeting is altogether friendly--"
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