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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Second Home by Honore de Balzac: won, lost, regained; but as to love--I might school myself for a
thousand years, and it would not blossom again, especially for a woman
too old to respond to it."
"I hope, Monsieur le Comte, I sincerely hope, that such words may not
be spoken to you some day by the woman you love, and in such a tone
and accent--"
"Will you put on a dress /a la Grecque/ this evening, and come to the
Opera?"
The shudder with which the Countess received the suggestion was a mute
reply.
Early in December 1833, a man, whose perfectly white hair and worn
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