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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: kill England, as in former times the discovery of the Cape of Good
Hope killed Venice."
"Not one word of God's providence in all this!" cried the rector.
"Monsieur Clousier and Monsieur Roubaud are oblivious of religion. How
is it with you, monsieur?" he added, turning to Gerard.
"Protestant," put in Grossetete.
"You guessed it," cried Veronique, looking at the rector as she took
Clousier's arm to return to the salon.
The prejudice Gerard's appearance excited against him had been quickly
dispelled, and the three notables congratulated themselves on so good
an acquisition.
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