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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac: the porter. If any one gets past the porter's lodge, my butler comes
out, waits for you at the entrance, and puts you through a cross-
examination like a criminal. That has happened to me, a mere postman.
He took me for an eavesdropper in disguise, he said, laughing at his
nonsense. As for the servants, don't hope to get aught out of them; I
think they are mutes, no one in the neighborhood knows the color of
their speech; I don't know what wages they can pay them to keep them
from talk and drink; the fact is, they are not to be got at, whether
because they are afraid of being shot, or that they have some enormous
sum to lose in the case of an indiscretion. If your master is fond
enough of Mademoiselle Paquita Valdes to surmount all these obstacles,
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