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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: him; he tried to walk, but he had no strength in his legs. He returned
to his seat and rang the bell.
"Pietro," he said, at last, to the footman, "light the fire; I am
cold."
Ginevra trembled, and looked at her father anxiously. The struggle
within him must have been horrible, for his face was distorted.
Ginevra knew the extent of the peril before her, but she did not
flinch. Bartolomeo, meanwhile, cast furtive glances at his daughter,
as if he feared a character whose violence was the work of his own
hands.
Between such natures all things must be extreme. The certainty of some
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