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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: misled. So, smiling in a way to give some hope to this new lover, she
drew back a few steps and said: "You might make me regret my
confidence."
"The imagination of a young girl is more rapid than that of a woman,"
he answered, laughing.
"A young girl has more to lose than a woman."
"True; those who carry a treasure ought to be distrustful."
"Let us quit such conventional language," she said, "and talk
seriously. You are to give a ball at Saint-James. I hear that your
headquarters, arsenals, and base of supplies are there. When is the
ball to be?"
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