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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: turned. The chief walked straight up to him, and commenced
operations by giving him a sharp blow on the head, so that the
wig fell off, and Collin's face was revealed in all its ugliness.
There was a terrible suggestion of strength mingled with cunning
in the short, brick-red crop of hair, the whole head was in
harmony with his powerful frame, and at that moment the fires of
hell seemed to gleam from his eyes. In that flash the real
Vautrin shone forth, revealed at once before them all; they
understood his past, his present, and future, his pitiless
doctrines, his actions, the religion of his own good pleasure,
the majesty with which his cynicism and contempt for mankind
Father Goriot |
