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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: muzzle--that's what she calls the lower part of her face--has, as
Shakespeare expresses it, the savor of a heifer's nose. She can make a
man unhappy. She likes handsome men, strong men, Alexanders, gymnasts,
clowns. Her trainer, a horrible brute, used to beat her to make her
supple, and graceful, and intrepid--"
"You are positively intoxicated with Malaga."
"Oh, she is called Malaga only on the posters," said Paz, with a
piqued air. "She lives in the rue Saint-Lazare, in a pretty apartment
on the third story, all velvet and silk, like a princess. She has two
lives, her circus life and the life of a pretty woman."
"Does she love you?"
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