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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: Madame de Serizy had not made the mistake of coming to the Palais de
Justice in her handsome carriage with a blue hammer-cloth and coats-
of-arms, her coachman in gold lace, and two footmen in breeches and
silk stockings. Just as they were starting Asie impressed on the two
great ladies the need for taking the hackney coach in which she and
the Duchess had arrived, and she had likewise insisted on Lucien's
mistress adopting the costume which is to women what a gray cloak was
of yore to men. The Countess wore a plain brown dress, an old black
shawl, and a velvet bonnet from which the flowers had been removed,
and the whole covered up under a thick lace veil.
"You received our note?" said she to Camusot, whose dismay she mistook
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