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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: wool the truth I have come to tell you."
"Ready to hear it," said Madame de l'Estorade, laughing.
"Your last letter, my dear, simply frightened me."
"Why? Because I told you I was trying to keep a man at a distance?"
"Yes. Why keep him at a distance? If Monsieur de Camps or Monsieur
Gaston or Monsieur de Rastignac were to make a practice of coming here
habitually, would you trouble yourself about them?"
"No; but they have not the same claim upon me: it is that I fear."
"Tell me, do you think Monsieur de Sallenauve loves you?"
"No; I am now quite sure to the contrary; and I also think that on my
side--"
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