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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ferragus by Honore de Balzac: "Yes, monsieur."
"You will have the money; but if you speak of this, remember, you will
lose all."
Jules returned to his wife.
"Clemence," he said, "I find I must put my accounts in order. Do not
be offended at the inquiry I am going to make. Have I not given you
forty thousand francs since the beginning of the year?"
"More," she said,--"forty-seven."
"Have you spent them?"
"Nearly," she replied. "In the first place, I had to pay several of
our last year's bills--"
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