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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: courage to say,--
"Where is /he/? Why does /he/ not write?"
"Let us think about him, mother, but not speak of him. You are ill--
you, before all."
"All" meant "him."
"My child," said Madame Grandet, "I do not wish to live. God protects
me and enables me to look with joy to the end of my misery."
Every utterance of this woman was unfalteringly pious and Christian.
Sometimes, during the first months of the year, when her husband came
to breakfast with her and tramped up and down the room, she would say
to him a few religious words, always spoken with angelic sweetness,
Eugenie Grandet |
