|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: "Ginevra!"
"No, you don't love me for myself; your reproaches betray your
intolerable egotism."
"You dare to blame your father's love!" exclaimed Piombo, his eyes
flashing.
"Father, I don't blame you," replied Ginevra, with more gentleness
than her trembling mother expected. "You have grounds for your
egotism, as I have for my love. Heaven is my witness that no girl has
ever fulfilled her duty to her parents better than I have done to you.
I have never felt anything but love and happiness where others often
see obligation. It is now fifteen years that I have never left your
|
