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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 he expect to get the natives to lay out capital?" asked Monsieur
Martener.
"I doubt if our royalists will go into that kind of mining," remarked
Vinet, laughing.
"What should you think from the air and gestures of Madame Marion?"
said the sub-prefect turning off the subject by pointing to Madame
Marion and Simon, who were deep in conversation.
Simon had gone toward the bridge to meet his aunt, and was now walking
with her up the square.
"If he was accepted one word would suffice," said the shrewd Olivier.
"Well?" said all the officials when Simon came to them under the
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