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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: others, he would lose confidence in himself. Dear, the good we do to
others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those
we help have no sense of inferiority. There is a wonderful sweetness
in these hidden sacrifices, and what a triumph for me in your
unsuspecting praises of Louis! There can be no doubt also that the
happiness, the comfort, the hope of the last two years have restored
what misfortune, hardship, solitude, and despondency has robbed him
of.
This, then, is the sum-total of my observations. At the present moment
you love in Felipe, not your husband, but yourself. There is truth in
your father's words; concealed by the spring-flowers of your passion
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