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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: "Well, anyhow, you will agree, my dear commander, that in the idea of
giving Celeste to this la Peyrade, there is something more than want
of experience; there is, it must be said, blundering folly and
immorality; for really the goings on of that barrister with Madame
Colleville--"
"Monsieur le maire," interrupted Phellion, with redoubled solemnity,
"Solon, the law-giver, decreed no punishment for parricide, declaring
it to be an impossible crime. I think the same thing may be said of
the offence to which you seem to make allusion. Madame Colleville
granting favors to Monsieur de la Peyrade, and all the while intending
to give him her daughter? No, monsieur, no! that passes imagination.
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