The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: understand me; she thinks me grand, superior. I dare say she is
faithless, but she would jump--"
"Through the hoop, for your sake and come down safely on the back of
her horse," said Clementine sharply.
"Oh, you don't know Malaga," said the captain, bitterly, with a
sarcastic look in his eyes which made Clementine thoughtful and
uneasy.
"Good-by to the young trees of this beautiful Bois, which you
Parisians love, and the exiles who find a home here love too," he
said, presently. "My eyes will never again see the evergreens of the
avenue de Mademoiselle, nor the acacias nor the cedars of the rond-
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