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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: "You won't frequent me much longer, for I go to-night, and leave you
to your dirty work."
"Bless me! so you retire to the Carmelites?"
"The Carmelites!" replied Antonia, wittily; "no, my old fellow, we
don't retire to the Carmelites unless we leave a king."
Such women, even the most ignorant, all know the story of La Valliere,
whom they would assuredly have made their patroness if Sister Louise-
of-the-Sacred-Mercy had been canonized.
I don't know how Mother Marie-des-Anges managed it, but early this
morning the carriage of the old Comte de Gondreville stopped before
the gate of the convent; and when the count again entered it he was
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