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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: belong to the house! He knows every corner and turning, and easily
escaped.'
" 'I am done for,' said the surgeon, in a gloomy voice.
" 'Come, come, keep calm, Bega,' said I (his name was Bega), 'we will
sit on watch with you till you leave. We will not leave you this
evening.'
"In point of fact, three young officers who had been losing at play
went home with the surgeon to his lodgings, and one of us offered to
stay with him.
"Within two days Bega had obtained his recall to France; he made
arrangements to travel with a lady to whom Murat had given a strong
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