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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: Agathe said. We said all sorts of things, which I shall not tell
you, Monsieur le Parisien, because they were all about you. Oh,
we love you dearly, dear brother; it was all summed up in those
few words. As for keeping the secret, little masqueraders like us
are capable of anything (according to our aunt), even of holding
our tongues. Our mother has been on a mysterious journey to
Angouleme, and the aunt went with her, not without solemn
councils, from which we were shut out, and M. le Baron likewise.
They are silent as to the weighty political considerations that
prompted their mission, and conjectures are rife in the State of
Rastignac. The Infantas are embroidering a muslin robe with open-
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