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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: frozen.
"It will take a long time," she said to herself, looking at Daniel's
noble brow and head.
"Is this a woman?" thought that profound observer of human nature.
"How ought I to treat her?"
Until two o'clock in the morning they spent their time in saying to
each other the silly things that women of genius, like the princess,
know how to make adorable. Diane pretended to be too worn, too old,
too faded; D'Arthez proved to her (facts of which she was well
convinced) that her skin was the most delicate, the softest to the
touch, the whitest to the eye, the most fragrant; she was young and in
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