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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac: "But, Monseigneur," she replied, with one of those glances which women
hold in reserve, "it seems to me that that depends on you."
"How so?"
"You alone can give me the right to come here."
"Pray explain."
"No; I said to myself before I came that I would certainly not have
the bad taste to seem a petitioner."
"No, no, speak freely. Places asked in this way are never out of
place," said the minister, laughing; for there is no jest too silly to
amuse a solemn man.
"Well, then, I must tell you plainly that the wife of the head of a
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