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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: postpone the interview I desire to have with you until to-morrow. Come
at ten o'clock to the adjoining house, and ask for Monsieur du
Portail. After what has passed this evening, there will, I ought to
warn you, be some danger to you in not accepting this conference. I
shall find you elsewhere, infallibly; for I have the honor to know who
you are; you are the man whom the Opposition journals were accustomed
to call 'the courageous Cerizet.'"
In spite of the profound sarcasm of this remark, Cerizet, perceiving
that he was not to be treated more rigorously than Madame Cardinal,
felt so pleased with this conclusion that he promised, very readily,
to keep the appointment, and then slipped away with all the haste he
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