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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: settled thing?"
"He not only considers it settled, but he is trying now to make people
believe it is a love-match. He rattled off a perfect tirade to
convince me that he is really in love."
"Very well," said du Portail, wishing, perhaps, to show that he could,
on occasion, use the slang of a low billiard-room, "'stop the charge'"
(meaning: Do nothing more); "I will undertake to bring monsieur to
reason. But come and see me to-morrow, and tell me all about the
family he intends to enter. You have failed in this affair; but don't
mind that; I shall have others for you."
So saying, he signed to the driver of an empty citadine, which was
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