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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: of the affair. There'll be two thousand deeds to draw, at the least."
"Our romance is turning into a locomotive," said Ernestine to Cecile.
"A count with a railway is all the more marriageable," remarked
Achille Pigoult. "But who knows whether he is a bachelor?"
"Oh! I shall know that to-morrow from grandpapa," cried Cecile, with
pretended enthusiasm.
"What a jest!" said Madame Mollot. "You can't really mean, my little
Cecile, that you are thinking of that stranger?"
"But the husband is always the stranger," interposed Olivier Vinet,
making a sign to Mademoiselle Beauvisage which she fully understood.
"Why shouldn't I think of him?" asked Cecile; "that isn't
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