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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: Oscar returned to the office and worked till night. Once a month Oscar
went to breakfast with his uncle Cardot, and he spent the Sundays with
his mother. From time to time Moreau, when he came to the office about
his own affairs, would take Oscar to dine in the Palais-Royal, and to
some theatre in the evening. Oscar had been so snubbed by Godeschal
and by Desroches for his attempts at elegance that he no longer gave a
thought to his clothes.
"A good clerk," Godeschal told him, "should have two black coats, one
new, one old, a pair of black trousers, black stockings, and shoes.
Boots cost too much. You can't have boots till you are called to the
bar. A clerk should never spend more than seven hundred francs a year.
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