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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: the good man's eyes would shut and the coffers open.
"Doctor Minoret may be an able physician, on good terms with death,
but none but God is eternal," said one.
"Pooh, he'll bury us all; his health is better than ours," replied an
heir, hypocritically.
"Well, if you don't get the money yourselves, your children will,
unless that little Ursula--"
"He won't leave it all to her."
Ursula, as Madame Massin had predicted, was the bete noire of the
relations, their sword of Damocles; and Madame Cremiere's favorite
saying, "Well, whoever lives will know," shows that they wished at any
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