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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: would be dry (the only time suitable for the work) all the necessary
preparations could be made so as to push the enterprise through
rapidly when it was once begun.
But the preparation of the plain was another thing; that according to
Gerard, would cost not less than two hundred thousand francs, without
including the sowing and planting. The plain was to be divided into
square compartments of two hundred and fifty acres each, where the
ground had to be cleared, not only of its stunted growths, but of
rocks. Laborers would have to dig innumerable trenches, and stone them
up so as to let no water run to waste, also to direct its flow at
will. This part of the enterprise needed the active and faithful arms
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