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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac: "Heap of vermin! I want my money; I will have my money! You shall give
me my money, or I carry off your scent-bags, and that satin trumpery,
and the fans, and everything you've got here, for my two thousand
francs. Who ever heard of mayors robbing the people? If you don't pay
me I'll send you to the galleys; I'll go to the police,--justice shall
be done! I won't leave this place till I've got my money."
She made a gesture as if to break the glass before the shelves on
which the valuables were placed.
"Mother Madou takes a drop too much," whispered Celestin to his
neighbor.
The virago overheard him,--for in paroxysms of passion the organs are
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