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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: sadness.
"I will love you in place of them."
"Then let us be happy,--we WILL be happy!" she cried, with a gayety in
which there was something dreadful.
CHAPTER V
MARRIAGE
The day after Ginevra was driven from her father's house she went to
ask Madame Servin for asylum and protection until the period fixed by
law for her marriage to Luigi.
Here began for her that apprenticeship to trouble which the world
strews about the path of those who do not follow its conventions.
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