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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: the Guard is disgraced--and here, at Issoudun! where it was once so
honored."
"Come, Potel, don't worry yourself," answered Max; "even if you do not
see me at the banquet--"
"What! do you mean that you won't be there the day after to-morrow?"
cried Potel, interrupting his friend. "Do you wish to be called a
coward? and have it said you are running away from Bridau? No, no! The
unmounted grenadiers of the Guard can not draw back before the
dragoons of the Guard. Arrange your business in some other way and be
there!"
"One more to send to the shades!" said Max. "Well, I think I can
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