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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: mistresses of their own house? I really felt as if I were the guest of
Madame--what IS her name? I never can remember it."
"Torna, Comtesse de Godollo," said Phellion, intervening. "The name is
euphonious enough to remember."
"Euphonious if you like, my dear; but to me it never seems a name at
all."
"It is a Magyar, or to speak more commonly, a Hungarian name. Our own
name, if we wanted to discuss it, might be said to be a loan from the
Greek language."
"Very likely; at any rate we have the advantage of being known, not
only in our own quarter, but throughout the tuition world, where we
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