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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: this important object; but he lost not a single expression of
suffering on the anxious face of his companion.
At this moment, the stranger was returning from the Chateau de Cinq-
Cygne, where he had apparently passed the night. Goulard resolved to
clear up, himself, the mystery wrapped about the Unknown, who was
physically enveloped in an overcoat of thick cloth called a /paletot/,
then the fashion. A mantle, thrown across his knees for a covering,
hid the lower half of his body, while an enormous muffler of red
cashmere covered his neck and head to the eyes. His hat, jauntily
tipped to one side, was, nevertheless, not ridiculous. Never was a
mystery more mysteriously bundled up and swathed.
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