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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: hands, and not be ill-looking. The most remarkable for manners,
appearance, and elocution are sent out to dress heads; and they come
back tired to death. Marius himself never turns out except for titled
women; he drives his cabriolet and has a groom."
"But, after all, he is nothing but a barber!" cried Gazonal, somewhat
shocked.
"Barber!" exclaimed Bixiou; "please remember that he is captain in the
National Guard, and is decorated for being the first to spring into a
barricade in 1832."
"And take care what you say to him: he is neither barber, hair-
dresser, nor wig-maker; he is a director of salons for hair-dressing,"
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