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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: future. And once already Mme. de Nucingen's hopes had been
betrayed, and her loyalty to a selfish young lover had been
despised. She had good reason to be suspicious. Or it may have
been that something in Eugene's manner (for his rapid success was
making a coxcomb of him) had warned her that the grotesque nature
of their position had lowered her somewhat in his eyes. She
doubtless wished to assert her dignity; he was young, and she
would be great in his eyes; for the lover who had forsaken her
had held her so cheap that she was determined that Eugene should
not think her an easy conquest, and for this very reason--he knew
that de Marsay had been his predecessor. Finally, after the
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