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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac: haf made der fortune, but dey would not wait one zingle day longer."
"Monsieur le baron!" cried Birotteau.
The worthy man thought his own prospects extremely doubtful, and
without bowing to Madame de Nucingen, or to de Marsay, he hastily
followed the banker. The baron was already on the staircase, and
Birotteau caught him at the bottom just as he was about to enter the
counting-room. As Nucingen opened the door he saw the despairing
gesture of the poor creature behind him, who felt himself pushed into
a gulf, and said hastily,--
"Vell, it is all agreet. See tu Tillet, and arranche it mit him."
Birotteau, thinking that de Marsay might have some influence with
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