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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: seen that man in my dreams! Oh! how beautiful his head is--how his
eyes sparkle!"
"Will he love you?" said the simple peasant-woman, in a quivering
voice, her face full of sad foreboding.
"How can you ask me that!" cried Mademoiselle de Verneuil. "But,
Francine, tell me," she added throwing herself into a pose that was
half serious, half comic, "will it be very hard to love me?"
"No, but will he love you always?" replied Francine, smiling.
They looked at each other for a moment speechless,--Francine at
revealing so much knowledge of life, and Marie at the perception,
which now came to her for the first time, of a future of happiness in
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