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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac: He took advantage of a lost trick, which ended a seventh rubber, to
rise and leave the table.
"I can't touch a card without losing," he said. "I am decidedly too
unlucky."
"But you are lucky in other ways," said the chevalier, giving him a
sly look.
That speech naturally made the rounds of the salon, where every one
exclaimed on the exquisite taste of the chevalier, the Prince de
Talleyrand of the province.
"There's no one like Monsieur de Valois for such wit."
Du Bousquier went to look at himself in a little oblong mirror, placed
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