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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac: have just inspired in it. . . . Will you speak?" she said, stamping
her foot with anger.
De Marsay, for all reply, gave her a glance, which signified so
plainly, "/You must die!/" that Paquita threw herself upon him.
"Ah, well, you want to kill me! . . . If my death can give you any
pleasure--kill me!"
She made a sign to Cristemio, who withdrew his foot from the body of
the young man, and retired without letting his face show that he had
formed any opinion, good or bad, with regard to Paquita.
"That is a man," said De Marsay, pointing to the mulatto, with a
sombre gesture. "There is no devotion like the devotion which obeys in
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