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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Two Poets by Honore de Balzac: minded servant-maid. The Abbe was not only a musician, he was well and
widely read, and knew both Italian and German; so Mlle. de Negrepelise
received instruction in those tongues, as well as in counterpoint. He
explained the great masterpieces of the French, German, and Italian
literatures, and deciphered with her the music of the great composers.
Finally, as time hung heavy on his hands in the seclusion enforced by
political storms, he taught his pupil Latin and Greek and some
smatterings of natural science. A mother might have modified the
effects of a man's education upon a young girl, whose independent
spirit had been fostered in the first place by a country life. The
Abbe Niollant, an enthusiast and a poet, possessed the artistic
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