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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: his canvas. Dear, dear! better and better, as it is at Nicolet's--"
"There are seven or eight very large ones up in the garret, which were
kept on account of the frames," said Gilet.
"Let me see them!" cried the artist; and Max took him upstairs.
Joseph came down wildly enthusiastic. Max whispered a word to the
Rabouilleuse, who took the old man into the embrasure of a window,
where Joseph heard her say in a low voice, but still so that he could
hear the words:--
"Your nephew is a painter; you don't care for those pictures; be kind,
and give them to him."
"It seems," said Jean-Jacques, leaning on Flore's arm to reach the
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