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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: advantages this weird messenger added that of being deaf and dumb, he
placed in the young man's hand a letter and a purse. The letter said
that the family of Dorlange were glad to see that he wished to devote
himself to art. They urged him to work bravely and to profit by the
instructions of the great master under whose direction he was placed.
They hoped he would live virtuously; and, in any case, an eye would be
kept upon his conduct. There was no desire, the letter went on to say,
that he should be deprived of the respectable amusements of his age.
For his needs and for his pleasures, he might count upon the sum of
six hundred and fifty francs every three months, which would be given
to him in the same place by the same man; but he was expressly
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