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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: certificates of Funds in the three-per-cents, made out to bearer,
each amounting to twelve thousand francs a year--
"What depths of wickedness!" screamed the post master. "Ah! God would
not permit me to be so defrauded."
Take these at once, and also some uninvested savings made to this
date, which you will find in the preceding volume. Remember, my
darling child, that you must obey a wish that has made the
happiness of my whole life; a wish that will force me to ask the
intervention of God should you disobey me. But, to guard against
all scruples in your dear conscience--for I well know how ready it
is to torture you--you will find herewith a will in due form
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