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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: now she felt forebodings of the coming pain, the air she breathed
was heavy with the storm that was about to burst.
"If you knew how my family are situated," he went on, "you would
love to play the part of a beneficent fairy godmother who
graciously clears the obstacles from the path of her protege."
"Well, cousin," she said, laughing, "and how can I be of service
to you?"
"But do I know even that? I am distantly related to you, and this
obscure and remote relationship is even now a perfect godsend to
me. You have confused my ideas; I cannot remember the things that
I meant to say to you. I know no one else here in Paris. . . .
Father Goriot | 
