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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: resignation of the victim.
When the time came to sit down to table three guests were missing,--
two Minards, father and son, and the notary Dupuis. The latter had
written a note to Thuillier in the morning, excusing himself from the
dinner, but saying that at nine o'clock precisely he would bring the
contract and place himself at the orders of Mademoiselle Thuillier. As
for Julien Minard, his mother excused him as being confined to his
room with a sore-throat. The absence of Minard senior remained
unexplained, but Madame Minard insisted that they should sit down to
table without him; which was done, Brigitte ordering that the soup be
kept hot for him, because in the bourgeois code of manners and customs
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