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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: d'Ajuda-Pinto trembled with joy. To be sure, a loving woman shows
even more ingenuity in inventing doubts of her lover than in
varying the monotony of his happiness; and when she is about to
be forsaken, she instinctively interprets every gesture as
rapidly as Virgil's courser detected the presence of his
companion by snuffing the breeze. It was impossible, therefore,
that Mme. de Beauseant should not detect that involuntary thrill
of satisfaction; slight though it was, it was appalling in its
artlessness.
Eugene had yet to learn that no one in Paris should present
himself in any house without first making himself acquainted with
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