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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac: living here without the slightest amusement. Although, to be sure, her
every wish is attended to, still she knows she is shut up and watched,
and the life she leads would give her no pleasure at all if it were
not for the amusement she gets out of her books. Come, don't worry
yourself; she loves nobody but you. You ought to be very glad that she
goes into these enthusiasms for the corsairs of Byron and the heroes
of Walter Scott and your own Germans, Egmont, Goethe, Werther,
Schiller, and all the other 'ers.'"
"Well, madame, what do you say to that?" asked Dumay, respectfully,
alarmed at Madame Mignon's silence.
"Modeste is not only inclined to love, but she loves some man,"
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