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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: mother's friend alarm him.
"Eh! my friend!" said Estelle, coming into the room, somewhat tired
with what she had been doing. "What is the matter?"
"My dear, we are lost,--lost beyond recovery. I am no longer steward
of Presles, no longer in the count's confidence."
"Why not?"
"Pere Leger, who was in Pierrotin's coach, told the count all about
the affair of Les Moulineaux. But that is not the thing that has cost
me his favor."
"What then?"
"Oscar spoke ill of the countess, and he told about the count's
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