The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: gave me when he fancied I wanted to cut his throat, poor innocent.
Young men are very simple-minded nowadays! Here it is."
"Rue du Sentier, No. 5," said Monsieur de Fontaine, trying to recall
among all the information he had received, something which might
concern the stranger. "What the devil can it mean? Messrs. Palma,
Werbrust & Co., wholesale dealers in muslins, calicoes, and printed
cotton goods, live there.--Stay, I have it: Longueville the deputy has
an interest in their house. Well, but so far as I know, Longueville
has but one son of two-and-thirty, who is not at all like our man, and
to whom he gave fifty thousand francs a year that he might marry a
minister's daughter; he wants to be made a peer like the rest of 'em.
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