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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: father-in-law with the money bags; he is very rich.'--'The devil,
e is!' they would say, and look again at me with the respect due
to my money. Well, if I was in the way sometimes, I paid dearly
for my mistakes. And besides, who is perfect? (My head is one
sore!) Dear Monsieur Eugene, I am suffering so now, that a man
might die of the pain; but it is nothing to be compared with the
pain I endured when Anastasie made me feel, for the first time,
that I had said something stupid. She looked at me, and that
glance of hers opened all my veins. I used to want to know
everything, to be learned; and one thing I did learn thoroughly
--I knew that I was not wanted here on earth.
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