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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Second Home by Honore de Balzac: choice but to live in complete isolation; but, crushed under the
tyranny of misery, he could not himself bear to see how altered he was
by grief and toil. And he dreaded any connection or intimacy with
women of the world, having no hope of finding any consolation.
The improving history of this melancholy household gave rise to no
events worthy of record during the fifteen years between 1806 and
1825. Madame de Granville was exactly the same after losing her
husband's affection as she had been during the time when she called
herself happy. She paid for Masses, beseeching God and the Saints to
enlighten her as to what the faults were which displeased her husband,
and to show her the way to restore the erring sheep; but the more
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