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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: often the greatest proof of love."
Madame de l'Estorade looked at her friend with a vexed air, and a
slight tinge of color came into her cheeks. But no one took notice of
it, for at this moment the servant threw open the door and announced
dinner.
After dinner, the theatre was proposed; that is one of the amusements
that Parisians miss the most in the provinces. Monsieur Octave de
Camps, coming from his "villanous iron-works," as Madame de l'Estorade
called them, had arrived in Paris eager for this pleasure, which his
wife, more serious and sober, did not enjoy to the same extent.
Therefore, when Monsieur de Camps proposed going to the Porte-Saint-
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