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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: first day when my happiness began under the protection of that
inscrutable being, who placed me here as you place some little curious
beast in a cage, I have known that you must marry. Marriage is a
necessary factor in your career, and God preserve me from hindering
the development of your fortunes.
"That marriage will be my death. But I will not worry you; I will not
do as the common girls do who kill themselves by means of a brazier of
charcoal; I had enough of that once; twice raises your gorge, as
Mariette says. No, I will go a long way off, out of France. Asie knows
the secrets of her country; she will help me to die quietly. A prick--
whiff, it is all over!
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