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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: of artistic pain; for all artists have a spot of predilection where
they work.
Nevertheless, political prejudice was not the chief influence on the
conduct of the Right clique of the studio. Ginevra, much the ablest of
Servin's pupils, was an object of intense jealousy. The master
testified as much admiration for the talents as for the character of
his favorite pupil, who served as a conclusion to all his comparisons.
In fact, without any one being able to explain the ascendancy which
this young girl obtained over all who came in contact with her, she
exercised over the little world around her a prestige not unlike that
of Bonaparte upon his soldiers.
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