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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: smile upon her lips and her eyes beaming. Each cherished a ruling
thought which would have made them take pleasure in a labor still more
severe; Ginevra said in her heart that she worked for Luigi, and Luigi
the same for Ginevra.
Sometimes, in the absence of her husband, the thought of the perfect
happiness she might have had if this life of love could have been
lived in the presence of her father and mother overcame the young
wife; and then, as she felt the full power of remorse, she dropped
into melancholy; mournful pictures passed like shadows across her
imagination; she saw her old father alone, or her mother weeping in
secret lest the inexorable Piombo should perceive her tears. The two
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