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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: infinite. This is the task set before every true wife; the answer
begins to dawn on me, and I shall not rest till I have made it mine.
You see that he fancies himself--vanity of men!--the chosen of my
heart, just as though there were no legal bonds. Nevertheless, I have
not yet got beyond that external attraction which gives us strength to
put up with a good deal. Yet Louis is lovable; his temper is
wonderfully even, and he performs, as a matter of course, acts on
which most men would plume themselves. In short, if I do not love him,
I shall find no difficulty in being good to him.
So here are my black hair and my black eyes--whose lashes act,
according to you, like Venetian blinds--my commanding air, and my
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