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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Sign of the Cat & Racket by Honore de Balzac: "Yes, father, I swear it."
At these words, spoken in a gentle voice, the old man kissed his
daughter on both cheeks. That night the lovers slept as soundly as
Monsieur and Madame Guillaume.
Some few months after this memorable Sunday the high altar of Saint-
Leu was the scene of two very different weddings. Augustine and
Theodore appeared in all the radiance of happiness, their eyes beaming
with love, dressed with elegance, while a fine carriage waited for
them. Virginie, who had come in a good hired fly with the rest of the
family, humbly followed her younger sister, dressed in the simplest
fashion like a shadow necessary to the harmony of the picture.
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