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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: curiosity, he would perform on an instrument that contained all the
elements of a complete orchestra, and which he called a
/Panharmonicon/.
"If it is the machine in that huge case, which brings down on us the
complaints of the neighborhood whenever you work at it, you will not
play on it long," said Giardini. "The police will interfere. Remember
that!"
"If that poor idiot stays in the room," said Gambara in a whisper to
the Count, "I cannot possibly play."
Andrea dismissed the cook, promising a handsome reward if he would
keep watch outside and hinder the neighbors or the police from
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