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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: was strikingly evident to so practiced an eye as la Pouraille's. And
it is quite intelligible that convicts, always thrown together, as
they must be, and never having any one else to study, will so
thoroughly have watched each other's faces and appearance, that
certain tricks will have impressed them which may escape their
systematic foes--spies, gendarmes, and police-inspectors.
Thus it was a peculiar twitch of the maxillary muscles of the left
cheek, recognized by a convict who was sent to a review of the Legion
of the Seine, which led to the arrest of the lieutenant-colonel of
that corps, the famous Coignard; for, in spite of Bibi-Lupin's
confidence, the police could not dare believe that the Comte Pontis de
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