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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: simply effected between the prisoner and the world, gives rise to a
complete overthrow of his faculties and a terrible prostration of
mind, especially when the man has not been familiarized by his
antecedents with the processes of justice. The duel between the judge
and the criminal is all the more appalling because justice has on its
side the dumbness of blank walls and the incorruptible coldness of its
agents.
But Jacques Collin, or Carlos Herrera--it will be necessary to speak
of him by one or the other of these names according to the
circumstances of the case--had long been familiar with the methods of
the police, of the jail, and of justice. This colossus of cunning and
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