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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac: with a sum in hand sufficient for the redemption of my future on a
large scale."
"Where is that money?"
"A friend is to send it to me."
The old man dropped his fork as he heard the word "friend," not in
surprise, not scoffingly, but in grief; his look and manner expressed
the pain he felt in finding Paul under the influence of a deceitful
illusion; his practised eye fathomed a gulf where the count saw
nothing but solid ground.
"I have been fifty years in the notariat," he said, "and I never yet
knew a ruined man whose friend would lend him money."
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