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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: set on me, and I want to realize them quickly. Sell some of your
old jewelry, my kind mother; I will give you other jewels very
soon. I know enough of our affairs at home to know all that such
a sacrifice means, and you must not think that I would lightly
ask you to make it; I should be a monster if I could. You must
think of my entreaty as a cry forced from me by imperative
necessity. Our whole future lies in the subsidy with which I must
begin my first campaign, for life in Paris is one continual
battle. If you cannot otherwise procure the whole of the money,
and are forced to sell our aunt's lace, tell her that I will send
her some still handsomer," and so forth.
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