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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: deputy of Arcis may not be settled there permanently in some fine
place in the magistracy? Look at Monsieur Vinet of Provins, how he has
made his way. People blamed Mademoiselle de Chargeboeuf for marrying
him; yet she will soon be wife of the Keeper of the Seals; Monsieur
Vinet can be peer of France whenever he pleases."
"Madame, I have not the power to marry my daughter according to my own
tastes. In the first place, her father and I leave her absolutely free
to choose for herself. If she wanted to marry the 'great Unknown' and
we found that the match was suitable, we should give our consent.
Besides this, Cecile is wholly dependent on her grandfather, who
intends to give her on her marriage the Hotel de Beauseant in Paris,
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