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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: parted.
The latter, when he took leave of Madame de Rastignac, asked on what
day he might have the honor of presenting his wife.
"Why, any day," replied the countess, "but particularly on Fridays."
IV
A CATECHISM
Rastignac called on Madame de l'Estorade the next day at the hour
named to him by his wife. Like all those present at the scene produced
by Monsieur de Ronquerolles, the minister had been struck by the
emotion shown by the countess, and, without stopping to analyze the
nature of the sentiment she might feel for the man who had saved her
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