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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: could not repress as he received the documents.
"We shall announce our marriages at the same time," remarked Monsieur
de Bonfons.
"Ah! you marry Eugenie? Well, I am delighted; she is a good girl.
But," added Charles, struck with a luminous idea, "she must be rich?"
"She had," said the president, with a mischievous smile, "about
nineteen millions four days ago; but she has only seventeen millions
to-day."
Charles looked at him thunderstruck.
"Seventeen mil--"
"Seventeen millions; yes, monsieur. We shall muster, Mademoiselle
Eugenie Grandet | 
