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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: does in regular evening dress. Though I must say that when he grows
animated in speaking his face lights up, a sort of a magnetic essence
flows from his eyes which I had already noticed in our preceding
encounters. Madame de la Bastie was as much struck as I was by this
peculiarity.
I don't know if I told you that the ambition of Monsieur Dorlange is
to be returned to the Chamber at the coming elections. This was the
reason he gave for declining Monsieur Gaston's commission. What
Monsieur de l'Estorade and I thought, at first, to be a mere excuse
was an actual reason. At table when Monsieur Joseph Bridau asked him
point-blank what belief was to be given to the report of his
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