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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: threatening, and anon so melancholy that she felt she could no longer
read a soul that was now incomprehensible, even to her.
Would Bartolomeo yield, at last, to the memories awakened by that
chair? Had he been shocked to see a stranger in that chair, used for
the first time since his daughter left him? Had the hour of his mercy
struck,--that hour she had vainly prayed and waited for till now?
These reflections shook the mother's heart successively. For an
instant her husband's countenance became so terrible that she trembled
at having used this simple means to bring about a mention of Ginevra's
name. The night was wintry; the north wind drove the snowflakes so
sharply against the blinds that the old couple fancied that they heard
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