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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Second Home by Honore de Balzac: pause. "Poor man! how my husband worshiped him! Ah! Crochard did well
to die, for he could not have borne to think of him where /they/ have
sent him!"
Roger put his finger to his lips, and the good woman went on very
gravely, with a shake of her head:
"All right, mouth shut and tongue still! But," added she, unhooking a
bit of her bodice, and showing a ribbon and cross tied round her neck
by a piece of black ribbon, "they shall never hinder me from wearing
what /he/ gave to my poor Crochard, and I will have it buried with
me."
On hearing this speech, which at that time was regarded as seditious,
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