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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: education you had had, and the favor enjoyed by your aunt with certain
persons for whose debaucheries she supplied victims.
"All this, prisoner, is not much like the dignity of the Dukes
d'Ossuna.
"Do you persist in your denial?"
Jacques Collin sat listening to Monsieur Camusot, and thinking of his
happy childhood at the College of the Oratorians, where he had been
brought up, a meditation which lent him a truly amazed look. And in
spite of his skill as a practised examiner, Camusot could bring no
sort of expression to those placid features.
"If you have accurately recorded the account of myself I gave you at
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