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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: "My good friend," said Madame Grandet, when the cloth was removed, "we
must put on mourning."
"Upon my word, Madame Grandet! what will you invent next to spend
money on? Mourning is in the heart, and not in the clothes."
"But mourning for a brother is indispensable; and the Church commands
us to--"
"Buy your mourning out of your six louis. Give me a hat-band; that's
enough for me."
Eugenie raised her eyes to heaven without uttering a word. Her
generous instincts, slumbering and long repressed but now suddenly and
for the first time awakened, were galled at every turn. The evening
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