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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: buy it; instead of that you put it at a high price, hoping to find
some hidden treasure in it."
"But," said Minoret, evidently troubled, "if you had twelve thousand
francs a year you would be in a position to marry well."
"I have not got them."
"But suppose I give them to you, on condition of your buying an estate
in Brittany near Madame de Portenduere,--you could then marry her
son."
"Monsieur Minoret," said Ursula, "I have no claim to that money, and I
cannot accept it from you. We are scarcely relations, still less are
we friends. I have suffered too much from calumny to give a handle for
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