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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac: "I wish I had the whole world to offer you!"
"You are not joking?" she went on, in a voice husky with too great
satisfaction.
"Will you accept only my diamond?"
"You will never take it back?" she insisted.
"Never."
She put the ring on her finger. Martial, confident of coming
happiness, was about to put his hand round her waist, but she suddenly
rose, and said in a clear voice, without any agitation:
"I accept the diamond, monsieur, with the less scruple because it
belongs to me."
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