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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: you not doomed yourself to perpetual anxiety?"
"Mademoiselle, the fate of women, of mothers, I should say, is to
tremble for the safety of their dear ones."
"Your son is very like you."
"Do you think so, mademoiselle?"
The smile with which the young man listened to these remarks increased
the vexation of his pretended mother. Her hatred grew with every
passionate glance he turned on Marie. Silence or conversation, all
increased the dreadful wrath which she carefully concealed beneath a
cordial manner.
"Mademoiselle," said the young man, "you are quite mistaken. Naval men
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