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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: or in the French army, if you are."
In the comfort that women give there is always a delicacy which has
something maternal, foreseeing, and complete about it. But when the
words of hope and peace are said with grace of gesture and that
eloquence of tone which comes from the heart, and when, above all, the
benefactress is beautiful, a young man does not resist. The prisoner
breathed in love through all his senses. A rosy tinge colored his
white cheeks; his eyes lost something of the sadness that dulled them,
and he said, in a peculiar tone of voice:--
"You are an angle of goodness-- But Labedoyere!" he added. "Oh,
Labedoyere!"
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