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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: would soothe the pain. Delphine! Delphine most of all. But tell
them when they come not to look so coldly at me as they do. Oh!
my friend, my good Monsieur Eugene, you do not know that it is
when all the golden light in a glance suddenly turns to a leaden
gray. It has been one long winter here since the light in their
eyes shone no more for me. I have had nothing but disappointments
to devour. Disappointment has been my daily bread; I have lived
on humiliation and insults. I have swallowed down all the
affronts for which they sold me my poor stealthy little moments
of joy; for I love them so! Think of it! a father hiding himself
to get a glimpse of his children! I have given all my life to
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