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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: Corsicans,--which does not, however, preclude calmness. Her long hair
and her black eyes and lashes expressed passion; the corners of her
mouth, too softly defined, and the lips, a trifle too marked, gave
signs of that kindliness which strong beings derive from the
consciousness of their strength.
By a singular caprice of nature, the charm of her face was, in some
degree, contradicted by a marble forehead, on which lay an almost
savage pride, and from which seemed to emanate the moral instincts of
a Corsican. In that was the only link between herself and her native
land. All the rest of her person, her simplicity, the easy grace of
her Lombard beauty, was so seductive that it was difficult for those
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