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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: rivaled the famous banquets by which the ministers of that time
secured the vote of their parliamentary recruits.
The Honorable Deputy was consequently pointed at as a most influential
corrupter of the legislative honesty of the illustrious Chamber that
was dying as it would seem of indigestion. A whimsical result! his
efforts to get his daughter married secured him a splendid popularity.
He perhaps found some covert advantage in selling his truffles twice
over. This accusation, started by certain mocking Liberals, who made
up by their flow of words for their small following in the Chamber,
was not a success. The Poitevin gentleman had always been so noble and
so honorable, that he was not once the object of those epigrams which
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