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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: reveal her character and reflect her daily life. He was the more
curious, because Mme. de Restaud's drawing-room had provided him
with a standard of comparison.
At half-past four the Vicomtesse de Beauseant was visible. Five
minutes earlier she would not have received her cousin, but
Eugene knew nothing of the recognized routine of various houses
in Paris. He was conducted up the wide, white-painted, crimson-
carpeted staircase, between the gilded balusters and masses of
flowering plants, to Mme. de Beauseant's apartments. He did not
know the rumor current about Mme. de Beauseant, one of the
biographies told, with variations, in whispers, every evening in
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