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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ferragus by Honore de Balzac: be offended at the inquiry I am going to make. Have I not given you
forty thousand francs since the beginning of the year?"
"More," she said,--"forty-seven."
"Have you spent them?"
"Nearly," she replied. "In the first place, I had to pay several of
our last year's bills--"
"I shall never find out anything in this way," thought Jules. "I am
not taking the best course."
At this moment Jules' own valet entered the room with a letter for his
master, who opened it indifferently, but as soon as his eyes had
lighted on the signature he read it eagerly. The letter was as
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