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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: Duchess.
"Poor Duchess!" thought Diane, with a glance at the Duke that
terrified him.
"What do you think, my dear little Diane?" said the Duke in a whisper,
as he led her away into a recess.
"Clotilde is so crazy about Lucien, my dear friend, that she had made
an assignation with him before leaving. If it had not been for little
Lenoncourt, she would perhaps have gone off with him into the forest
of Fontainebleau. I know that Lucien used to write letters to her
which were enough to turn the brain of a saint.--We are three
daughters of Eve in the coils of the serpent of letter-writing."
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