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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 brow to fling them at the head of my father's creditors."
"But suppose that your father's estate were within a few days to be
declared bankrupt?"
"Monsieur, in a few days I shall be called the Comte d'Aubrion; you
will understand, therefore, that what you threaten is of no
consequence to me. Besides, you know as well as I do that when a man
has an income of a hundred thousand francs his father has /never
failed/." So saying, he politely edged Monsieur des Grassins to the
door.
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At the beginning of August in the same year, Eugenie was sitting on
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