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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac: "Ah, that's another thing! Sit down, Monsieur Birotteau, and eat a
mouthful with us."
"Do us the pleasure to share our breakfast," said Madame Lourdois.
"You are doing well, then?" asked the fat Lourdois.
"No, monsieur, I have lived from hand to mouth, that I might scrape up
this money; but I hope, in time, to repair the wrongs I have done to
my neighbor."
"Ah!" said the painter, swallowing a mouthful of /pate de foie gras/,
"you are truly a man of honor."
"What is Madame Birotteau doing?" asked Madame Lourdois.
"She is keeping the books of Monsieur Anselme Popinot."
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