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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: they reached the church porch. "No two creatures were ever more fitted
for one another. The parents of the girl are foolish. I don't know a
braver soldier than Colonel Luigi. If the whole army had behaved like
him, 'l'autre' would be here still."
This blessing of the old soldier, the only one bestowed upon their
marriage-day, shed a balm on Ginevra's heart.
They parted with hearty shakings of hand; Luigi thanked his landlord.
"Adieu, 'mon brave,'" he said to the sergeant. "I thank you."
"I am now and ever at your service, colonel,--soul, body, horses, and
carriages; all that is mine is yours."
"How he loves you!" said Ginevra.
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