The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: more than this revelation.
"What matter is it to them?" she asked, naively.
"Everybody thinks it very wrong. Mamma says it is immoral."
"And you, Laure, what do you say?"
The young girl looked up at Ginevra, and their thoughts united. Laure
could no longer keep back her tears; she flung herself on her friend's
breast and sobbed. At this moment Servin came into the studio.
"Mademoiselle Ginevra," he cried, with enthusiasm, "I have finished my
picture! it is now being varnished. What have you been doing,
meanwhile? Where are the young ladies; are they taking a holiday, or
are they in the country?"
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