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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: had taken off his white gloves.
"Confound it!" Eugene said to himself, "I am in for it now, and
at least I will not spend cab-hire for nothing!--Drive to the
Hotel Beauseant," he said aloud.
"Which?" asked the man, a portentous word that reduced Eugene to
confusion. This young man of fashion, species incerta, did not
know that there were two Hotels Beauseant; he was not aware how
rich he was in relations who did not care about him.
"The Vicomte de Beauseant, Rue----"
"De Grenelle," interrupted the driver, with a jerk of his head.
"You see, there are the hotels of the Marquis and Comte de
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