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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ferragus by Honore de Balzac: "Even to help me in killing some one?"
"The deuce! the deuce!" said Jacquet, repeating, as it were, the same
musical note. "I have two children and a wife."
Jules pressed his friend's hand and went away; but returned
immediately.
"I forgot the letter," he said. "But that's not all, I must reseal
it."
"The deuce! the deuce! you opened it without saving the seal; however,
it is still possible to restore it. Leave it with me and I'll bring it
to you /secundum scripturam/."
"At what time?"
Ferragus | 
