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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: ever be useful to you, let me know."
"Well," said Oscar, "I'll admit to you now that you once did me a very
great harm."
"Pooh!" said Georges, after listening to the explanation for which he
asked; "it was Monsieur de Serizy who behaved badly. His wife! I
wouldn't have her at any price; neither would I like to be in the
count's red skin, minister of State and peer of France as he is. He
has a small mind, and I don't care a fig for him now."
Oscar listened with true pleasure to these slurs on the count, for
they diminished, in a way, the importance of his fault; and he echoed
the spiteful language of the ex-notary, who amused himself by
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