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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: "Domino!" cried the Saint-Esteve. "I win; you have four points between
you two, and the whites are all out. Well, my dear, what is it?" she
said, turning to her nephew, after a rather stormy reckoning among the
witches was over.
"You, Madame Fontaine," said the chief of police, addressing one of
the venerable beings, whose head was covered with disorderly gray hair
and a battered green bonnet,--"you neglect your duty; you have sent me
no report, and, on the contrary, I get many complaints of you. The
prefect has a great mind to close your establishment. I protect you on
account of the services you are supposed to render us; but if you
don't render them, I warn you, without claiming any gifts of
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