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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: Francine, with her back to her, was going towards the two lovers, who
at that moment had forgotten the whole earth. Madame du Gua, with a
finger on her lip to demand silence, walked towards the Chouan, who
guessed rather than heard her question, "How many of you are here?"
"Eighty-seven."
"They are sixty-five; I counted them."
"Good," said the savage, with sullen satisfaction.
Attentive to all Francine's movements, the Chouan disappeared behind
the willow, as he saw her turn to look for the enemy over whom she was
keeping an instinctive watch.
Six or eight persons, attracted by the noise of the carriage-wheels,
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