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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: Esteve, by tossing the Baron from hope to despair by turns, brought
him to the point when he insisted on being informed of all that
related to the unknown beauty at ANY COST. Meanwhile, the law was put
in force, and with such effect that the bailiffs, finding no
resistance from Esther, put in an execution on her effects without
losing a day.
Lucien, guided by his adviser, paid the recluse at Saint-Germain five
or six visits. The merciless author of all these machinations thought
this necessary to save Esther from pining to death, for her beauty was
now their capital. When the time came for them to quit the park-
keeper's lodge, he took Lucien and the poor girl to a place on the
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