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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: intelligible to the reader without this narrative of the foregoing
circumstances.
CHAPTER II
THE STUDIO
Servin, one of our most distinguished artists, was the first to
conceive of the idea of opening a studio for young girls who wished to
take lessons in painting.
About forty years of age, a man of the purest morals, entirely given
up to his art, he had married from inclination the dowerless daughter
of a general. At first the mothers of his pupils bought their
daughters themselves to the studio; then they were satisfied to send
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