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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: who is practical and foreseeing, she too enjoys her pigeon
shooting, but the birds are her lovers."
Shortly after she left Vittel an event occurred which afforded
Jeanne de la Cour the prospect of acquiring that settled position
in life which, "practical and foreseeing," she now regarded as
indispensable to her future welfare. Her husband, Gras, died, as
she had foretold, in the Charity Hospital. The widow was free.
If she could bring down her bird, it was now in her power to make
it hers for life. Henceforth all her efforts were directed to
that end. She was reaching her fortieth year, her hair was
turning grey, her charms were waning. Poverty, degradation, a
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