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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: what the lost sheep, who returned in tears, told of it. When the
journalist tried to joke her on this conversion, Mademoiselle Antonia
turned upon him.
"Hold your tongue," she said; "you never in your life wrote a sentence
like what she said to me."
"What did she say to you?"
"'Go, my child,' said that old woman, 'the ways of God are beautiful,
and little known; there is often more of a saint in a Magdalen than in
a nun.'"
The journalist laughed, but scenting danger he said,--
"When are you going again to Gondreville to see that Keller? If he
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