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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: Chamber."
"True," said Maxime, "but I don't see how a new difficulty is going to
help us."
"You wouldn't be sorry to send your adversary with the galleys," said
Desroches, laughing.
"A villain," added Maxime, "who may make me lose a rich marriage; a
fellow who poses for stern virtue, and then proceeds to trickery of
this kind!"
"Well, you must resign yourself to a less glorious result; but you can
make a pretty scandal, and destroy the reputation of your man; and
that ought, it seems to me, to serve your ends."
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