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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: XXVI
LOUISE DE MACUMER TO RENEE DE L'ESTORADE
March.
As Felipe has carried out, with a truly Saracenic generosity, the
wishes of my father and mother in acknowledging the fortune he has not
received from me, the Duchess has become even more friendly to me than
before. She calls me little sly-boots, little woman of the world, and
says I know how to use my tongue.
"But, dear mamma," I said to her the evening before the contract was
signed, "you attribute to cunning and smartness on my part what is
really the outcome of the truest, simplest, most unselfish, most
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