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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac: the necessity of the manoeuvres which raised well-nigh insurmountable
barriers between beginners and the upper room where the elect were
gathered together.
"Contributors don't get very much as it is," he said, addressing
Giroudeau.
"If there were more of you, there would be so much less," retorted the
captain. "So there!"
The old campaigner swung his loaded cane, and went down coughing as
usual. Out in the street he was amazed to see a handsome carriage
waiting on the boulevard for Lucien.
"YOU are the army nowadays," he said, "and we are the civilians."
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