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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: This officer knew Philippe and Giroudeau. Mariette's first appearance,
heralded already by Finot's journal and also by Philippe's, was
promptly arranged by the three officers; for there seems to be
solidarity among the passions in a matter of folly.
The mischievous Bixiou was not long in revealing to his grandmother
and the devoted Agathe that Philippe, the cashier, the hero of heroes,
was in love with Mariette, the celebrated ballet-dancer at the Porte-
Saint-Martin. The news was a thunder-clap to the two widows; Agathe's
religious principles taught her to think that all women on the stage
were brands in the burning; moreover, she thought, and so did Madame
Descoings, that women of that kind dined off gold, drank pearls, and
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