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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: fears no man, cast her glances hither and thither without
discrimination. In my judgment, a young woman should always know
exactly what her eye is resting on.
I was mad with rage. One man actually inspected my carriage without
noticing me. This flattering homage probably came from a carriage-
maker. I have been quite out in the reckoning of my forces. Plainly,
beauty, that rare gift which comes from heaven, is commoner in Paris
than I thought. I saw hats doffed with deference to simpering fools; a
purple face called forth murmurs of, "It is she!" My mother received
an immense amount of admiration. There is an answer to this problem,
and I mean to find it.
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