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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: certainly cannot descend to make it with you."
"But see," said Vinet, interposing to cut off Maxime's reply, which
would doubtless have been bitter; "suppose we send the affair to the
criminal courts, and the peasant-woman, instigated by the Beauvisage
couple, should denounce the man who had sworn before a notary, and
offered himself for election falsely, as a Sallenauve: the question is
one for the court of assizes."
"But proofs? I return to that, you must have proof," said Rastignac.
"Have you even a shadow of it?"
"You said yourself, just now," remarked Maxime, "that it was always
possible to bring a bad case."
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