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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac: Uncle Pillerault, who had exchanged bows with little Molineux, seated
himself in an armchair near the bookshelves. He looked at the card-
players, listened to the conversations, and went to the doorway every
now and then to watch the oscillating bouquet of flowers formed by the
circling heads of the dancers in the /moulinet/. The expression of his
face was that of a true philosopher. The men were dreadful,--all, that
is, except du Tillet, who had acquired the manners of the great world,
little La Billardiere, a budding fashionable, Monsieur Desmarets, and
the official personages. But among all the faces, more or less
comical, from which the assemblage took its character, there was one
that was particularly washed-out, like a five-franc piece of the
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