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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: your recipe for curing the Countess."
"Monsieur le Comte," said the convict very gravely, "I was, as you
know, sentenced to five years' penal servitude for forgery. But I love
my liberty.--This passion, like every other, had defeated its own end,
for lovers who insist on adoring each other too fondly end by
quarreling. By dint of escaping and being recaptured alternately, I
have served seven years on the hulks. So you have nothing to remit but
the added terms I earned in quod--I beg pardon, in prison. I have, in
fact, served my time, and till some ugly job can be proved against me,
--which I defy Justice to do, or even Corentin--I ought to be
reinstated in my rights as a French citizen.
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