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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gobseck by Honore de Balzac: you are disinheriting your--other children. They bear your name.
Merely as the children of a once-loved wife, now fallen from her
position, they have a claim to an assured existence. I tell you
plainly that I cannot accept the trust with which you propose to honor
me unless their future is secured.'
"The Count trembled violently at the words, and tears came into his
eyes as he grasped my hand, saying, 'I did not know my man thoroughly.
You have made me both glad and sorry. We will make provision for the
children in the counter-deed.'
"I went with him to the door; it seemed to me that there was a glow of
satisfaction in his face at the thought of this act of justice.
Gobseck | 
