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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: is done, whether some persist in thinking me a forger, or a
libertine, or merely a negligent deputy, I feel no anxiety about
the verdict of my electors. I can confidently assert that after a
delay of a few weeks I shall return to you.
/Cries on all sides/.--The vote! the vote!
On leaving the tribune M. de Sallenauve receives many
congratulations.
/The President/.--I put to vote the admission of M. de Sallenauve
as the deputy elected by the arrondissement of Arcis.
Nearly the whole Chamber rises and votes the admission; a few
deputies of the Centre alone abstain from taking part in the
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