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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: presentation Ginevra was to make of her lover, he would not advance to
meet him, but remained seated in his usual arm-chair, and the
sternness of his brow was awful.
"Father," said Ginevra, "I bring you a person you will no doubt be
pleased to see,--a soldier who fought beside the Emperor at Mont-
Saint-Jean."
The baron rose, cast a sidelong glance at Luigi, and said, in a
sardonic tone:--
"Monsieur is not decorated."
"I no longer wear the Legion of honor," replied Luigi, timidly, still
standing.
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