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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: "Call it my brothel!"
At this Fauchery laughed approvingly, while La Faloise stopped with
his pretty speech strangled in his throat, feeling very much shocked
and striving to appear as though he enjoyed the phrase. The manager
had dashed off to shake hands with a dramatic critic whose column
had considerable influence. When he returned La Faloise was
recovering. He was afraid of being treated as a provincial if he
showed himself too much nonplused.
"I have been told," he began again, longing positively to find
something to say, "that Nana has a delicious voice."
"Nana?" cried the manager, shrugging his shoulders. "The voice of a
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