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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: first time that he had attempted to spend the night in this way
in that silent quarter. The spell of a factitious energy was upon
him; he had beheld the pomp and splendor of the world. He had not
dined at the Maison Vauquer; the boarders probably would think
that he would walk home at daybreak from the dance, as he had
done sometimes on former occasions, after a fete at the Prado, or
a ball at the Odeon, splashing his silk stockings thereby, and
ruining his pumps.
It so happened that Christophe took a look into the street before
drawing the bolts of the door; and Rastignac, coming in at that
moment, could go up to his room without making any noise,
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