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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: "A picture of your own! will you bring us that?" cried the Corsican,
clapping his hands.
"Yes, I am very much occupied at the studio," replied Ginevra, rather
slowly.
"What is the matter, Ginevra? You are turning pale!" cried her mother.
"No!" exclaimed the young girl in a tone of resolution,--"no! it shall
never be said that Ginevra Piombo acted a lie."
Hearing this singular exclamation, Piombo and his wife looked at their
daughter in astonishment.
"I love a young man," she added, in a voice of emotion.
Then, not venturing to look at her parents, she lowered her large
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