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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac: buttons, a black cravat, and a small blue surtout coat which seemed
glued to his back and shoulders by some newly-invented process. The
ribbon of the Legion of honor was in his buttonhole. He wore a well-
fitting pair of kid gloves of the Florentine bronze color, and carried
his cane and hat in the left hand with a gesture and air that was
worthy of the Grand Monarch, and enabled him to show, as the sacred
precincts required, his bare head with the light falling on his
carefully arranged hair. He stationed himself before the service began
in the church porch, from whence he could examine the church, and the
Christians--more particularly the female Christians--who dipped their
fingers in the holy water.
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