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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: position was not unlike that of some visitor permitted as a favor
to inspect a private collection of curiosities, when by
inadvertence he comes into collision with a glass case full of
sculptured figures, and three or four heads, imperfectly secured,
fall at the shock. He wished the earth would open and swallow
him. Mme. de Restaud's expression was reserved and chilly, her
eyes had grown indifferent, and sedulously avoided meeting those
of the unlucky student of law.
"Madame," he said, "you wish to talk with M. de Restaud; permit
me to wish you good-day----"
The Countess interrupted him by a gesture, saying hastily,
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