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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac: "Rakes are neither costly nor difficult to handle," remarked the
daughter of Germany.
"But the dogs?" cried Dumay.
"Lovers have philters even for dogs," answered Madame Mignon.
"If you are right, my honor is lost! I may as well blow my brains
out," exclaimed Dumay.
"Why so, Dumay?" said the blind woman.
"Ah, madame, I could never meet my colonel's eye if he did not find
his daughter--now his only daughter--as pure and virtuous as she was
when he said to me on the vessel, 'Let no fear of the scaffold hinder
you, Dumay, if the honor of my Modeste is at stake.'"
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