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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: surpassing eloquence to the banal phrases. Mme. de Nucingen
thought that Rastignac was adorable. Then, woman-like, being at a
loss how to reply to the student's outspoken admiration, she
answered a previous remark.
"Yes, it is very wrong of my sister to treat our poor father as
she does," she said; "he has been a Providence to us. It was not
until M. de Nucingen positively ordered me only to receive him in
the mornings that I yielded the point. But I have been unhappy
about it for a long while; I have shed many tears over it. This
violence to my feelings, with my husband's brutal treatment, have
been two causes of my unhappy married life. There is certainly no
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