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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac: Bixiou [with his finger on a paragraph]. "Here YOU are, pere Saillard.
Listen" [reads]:--
"Saillard.--The office of cashier to be suppressed in all the
ministries; their accounts to be kept in future at the Treasury.
Saillard is rich and does not need a pension.
"Do you want to hear about your son-in-law?" [Turns over the leaves.]
"Here he is" [reads]:--
"Baudoyer.--Utterly incapable. To be thanked and dismissed. Rich; does
not need a pension.
"And here's for Godard" [reads]:--
"Godard.--Should be dismissed; pension one-third of his present
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