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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: "But they have not gone up like lime, relatively speaking," replied
the contractor.
Then they walked round the hall.
"How one loses time here," said the mason, replacing a thick silver
watch in his fob.
Luigi and Ginevra, sitting pressed to one another, seemed like one
person. A poet would have admired their two heads, inspired by the
same sentiment, colored in the same tones, silent and saddened in
presence of that humming happiness sparkling in diamonds, gay with
flowers,--a gayety in which there was something fleeting. The joy of
those noisy and splendid groups was visible; that of Ginevra and Luigi
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