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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: in which a great soul can mingle dignity and gratitude. It was
like balm to the law student, who was still smarting under the
Duchess' insolent scrutiny; she had looked at him as an
auctioneer might look at some article to appraise its value.
"Imagine, too, that I had just made some progress with the Comte
de Restaud; for I should tell you, madame," he went on, turning
to the Duchess with a mixture of humility and malice in his
manner, "that as yet I am only a poor devil of a student, very
much alone in the world, and very poor----"
"You should not tell us that, M. de Rastignac. We women never
care about anything that no one else will take."
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