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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: historians and certain "Guides to Paris" may say. I should therefore
have passed rapidly through it if the remarkable talent of the
organist who was performing part of the service had not induced me to
remain.
To say that the playing of that man realized my ideal is giving it
high praise, for I dare say you will remember that I always
distinguished between organ-players and organists, a superior order of
nobility the title of which is not to be given unwittingly.
The service over, I had a curiosity to see the face of so eminent an
artist buried in that out-of-the-way place. Accordingly I posted
myself near the door of the organ loft, to see him as he left the
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