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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac: particle of you were left. You would stay in my heart, mine forever."
Henri looked at the girl without trembling, and this fearless gaze
filled her with joy.
"No, I shall not do it! You have fallen into no trap here, but upon
the heart of a woman who adores you, and it is I who will be cast into
the pit."
"All this appears to me prodigiously strange," said De Marsay,
considering her. "But you seem to me a good girl, a strange nature;
you are, upon my word of honor, a living riddle, the answer to which
is very difficult to find."
Paquita understood nothing of what the young man said; she looked at
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