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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: whence she emerges with utterances that are incomprehensible to those
who have not sailed it in her convoy.
"Clear your brow, meine Schone," said the Baron, sitting down by her.
"You shall hafe no more debts--I shall arrange mit Eugenie, an' in ein
mont you shall go 'vay from dese rooms and go to dat little palace.--
Vas a pretty hant.--Gife it me dat I shall kiss it." Esther gave him
her hand as a dog gives a paw. "Ach, ja! You shall gife de hant, but
not de heart, and it is dat heart I lofe!"
The words were spoken with such sincerity of accent, that poor Esther
looked at the old man with a compassion in her eyes that almost
maddened him. Lovers, like martyrs, feel a brotherhood in their
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