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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: him; I do not owe him my life. Oh, my first, my last, my only love!
what an end to it!" She sprang upon Francine, who was terrified. "Do
you love a man? Oh, yes, yes, I remember; you do. I am glad I have a
woman here who can understand me. Ah, my poor Francette, man is a
miserable being. Ha! he said he loved me, and his love could not bear
the slightest test! But I,--if all men had accused him I would have
defended him; if the universe rejected him my soul should have been
his refuge. In the old days life was filled with human beings coming
and going for whom I did not care; it was sad and dull, but not
horrible; but now, now, what is life without him? He will live on, and
I not near him! I shall not see him, speak to him, feel him, hold him,
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