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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac: see if you can send for pates; and I want shrimps from the Brillante.
What o'clock is it?"
"A quarter to nine."
"Good heavens! Mariette, don't stop to chatter. The person my uncle
expects may arrive at any moment. If we had to give him breakfast,
where should we be with nothing in the house?"
Mariette turned back to Penelope in a lather, and looked at Jacquelin
as if she would say, "Mademoiselle has put her hand on a husband THIS
time."
"Now, Josette," continued the old maid, "let us see where we had
better put Monsieur de Troisville to sleep."
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