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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: may be bad, but their heads are strong. "He is very strong!" is the
supreme praise accorded to those who have attained /quibuscumque
viis/, political rank, a woman, or a fortune. Amongst them are to be
found certain young men who play this /role/ by commencing with having
debts. Naturally, these are more dangerous than those who play it
without a farthing.
The young man who called himself a friend of Henri de Marsay was a
rattle-head who had come from the provinces, and whom the young men
then in fashion were teaching the art of running through an
inheritance; but he had one last leg to stand on in his province, in
the shape of a secure establishment. He was simply an heir who had
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