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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: Works, to whom he must have desired to render an account of his
mission, and explain as best he could the reasons of its ill-success.
But another and more pressing interest seemed to claim him.
"To Colonel Franchessini's," he said to his coachman.
Arriving at the gate of one of the prettiest hotels in the /quartier/
Breda, and nodding to the concierge, he received an affirmative sign,
which meant, "Monsieur is at home"; and at the same time a valet
appeared on the portico to receive him.
"Is the colonel visible?" he asked.
"He has just gone into madame's room. Does monsieur wish me to call
him?"
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