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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: for himself without his employer's knowledge, saw that Eugene had
no umbrella, remarked his black coat, white waistcoat, yellow
gloves, and varnished boots, and stopped and looked at him
inquiringly. Eugene, in the blind desperation that drives a young
man to plunge deeper and deeper into an abyss, as if he might
hope to find a fortunate issue in its lowest depths, nodded in
reply to the driver's signal, and stepped into the cab; a few
stray petals of orange blossom and scraps of wire bore witness to
its recent occupation by a wedding party.
"Where am I to drive, sir?" demanded the man, who, by this time,
had taken off his white gloves.
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