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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: narrow winding steps cut in the granite wall. When they had mounted
some twenty of these steps the gleam of a lamp dimly lighted their
heads. The miser stopped, turned to his companion, examined her face
as if it were a bank note he was doubtful about cashing, and heaved a
heavy sigh.
"By bringing you here," he said, after a moment's silence, "I have
paid you in full for the service you did me; I don't see why I should
give you--"
"Monsieur, I ask nothing of you," she said.
These words, and also, perhaps, the disdainful expression on the
beautiful face, reassured the old man, for he answered, not without a
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