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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Firm of Nucingen by Honore de Balzac: "Dies iroe! (from the minor cannons). Dies illa! (from the
choristers).
" 'Good-day, Werbrust (from Taillefer), the Dies iroe puts me too much
in mind of my poor boy.'
" 'I shall go too; it is too damp in here,' said Werbrust.
"In favilla.
" 'A few halfpence, kind gentlemen!' (from the beggars at the door).
" 'For the expenses of the church!' (from the beadle, with a rattling
clatter of the money-box).
" 'AMEN' (from the choristers).
" 'What did he die of?' (from a friend).
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