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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: having to get down, could not catch the chaise up again."
Five days after Derville's return, Lucien one morning had a call from
Rastignac.
"I am in despair, my dear boy," said his visitor, "at finding myself
compelled to deliver a message which is intrusted to me because we are
known to be intimate. Your marriage is broken off beyond all hope of
reconciliation. Never set foot again in the Hotel de Grandlieu. To
marry Clotilde you must wait till her father dies, and he is too
selfish to die yet awhile. Old whist-players sit at table--the card-
table--very late.
"Clotilde is setting out for Italy with Madeleine de Lenoncourt-
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