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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: forced to be content with having impressed upon her father's mind both
her love for Luigi and the idea of an approaching marriage.
The next day she said no more about her love; she was more caressing
to her father than she had ever been, and testified the utmost
gratitude, as if to thank him for the consent he seemed to have given
by his silence. That evening she sang and played to him for a long
time, exclaiming now and then: "We want a man's voice for this
nocturne." Ginevra was an Italian, and that says all.
At the end of a week her mother signed to her. She went; and Elisa
Piombo whispered in her ear:--
"I have persuaded your father to receive him."
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