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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac: in bloom; here's Mademoiselle Cormon going to Prebaudet. How happens
it she doesn't marry?"
"I'd marry her myself," said a wag; "in fact, the marriage is half-
made, for here's one consenting party; but the other side won't. Pooh!
the oven is heating for Monsieur du Bousquier."
"Monsieur du Bousquier! Why, she has refused him."
That evening at all the gatherings it was told gravely:--
"Mademoiselle Cormon has gone."
Or:--
"So you have really let Mademoiselle Cormon go."
The Wednesday chosen by Suzanne to make known her scandal happened to
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