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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lily of the Valley by Honore de Balzac: because they have no strength to play with me. Suffering has enfeebled
their whole being, it has loosened even the ties that bound them to
me.
"Thus you can well believe that Clochegourde is very sad. Monsieur de
Mortsauf now rules everything--Oh my friend! you, my glory!" she
wrote, farther on, "you must indeed love me well to love me still; to
love me callous, ungrateful, turned to stone by grief."
CHAPTER III
THE TWO WOMEN
It was at this time, when I was never more deeply moved in my whole
being, when I lived in that soul to which I strove to send the
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