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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: expenses."
Giardini kissed the Count's hand after the Neapolitan fashion.
"Excellenza," said he, "I accept the cheque, but beg to decline the
place. It would dishonor me to give up my art by losing the opinion of
the most perfect epicures, who are certainly to be found in Paris."
When Andrea arrived at Gambara's lodgings, the musician rose to
welcome him.
"My generous friend," said he, with the utmost frankness, "you either
took advantage, last evening, of the weakness of my brain to make a
fool of me, or else your brain is no more capable of standing the test
of the heady liquors of our native Latium, than mine is. I will assume
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