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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: for a few days. But how should women understand money matters? When
madame's creditors heard that she had come home, they all came down
upon us like birds of prey.--Last evening, at seven o'clock, monsieur,
men came and stuck terrible posters up to announce a sale of furniture
on Saturday--but that is nothing.--Madame, who is all heart, once upon
a time to oblige that wretch of a man you know----"
"Vat wretch?"
"Well, the man she was in love with, d'Estourny--well, he was
charming! He was only a gambler----"
"He gambled with beveled cards!"
"Well--and what do you do at the Bourse?" said Europe. "But let me go
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