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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: to all the fair Manon's proofs of devotion. Mystery on mystery.
However, this youth, under the diligent attentions of police spies,
was soon seen and identified as an escaped convict, the famous hero of
the Corsican vendetta, the handsome Theodore Calvi, known as
Madeleine.
A man was turned on to entrap Calvi, one of those double-dealing
buyers of stolen goods who serve the thieves and the police both at
once; he promised to purchase the silver and the watch and chain. At
the moment when the dealer of the Cour Saint-Guillaume was counting
out the cash to Theodore, dressed as a woman, at half-past six in the
evening, the police came in and seized Theodore and the property.
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