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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac: "I, retreat before the peasantry when I did not recoil before the
Danube!" cried the general.
"Yes, but what became of your cuirassiers?" asked Blondet.
"Such a fine estate!"
"It will sell to-day for over two millions."
"The chateau alone must have cost that," remarked Monsieur de
Troisville.
"One of the best properties in a circumference of sixty miles," said
the sub-prefect; "but you can find a better near Paris."
"How much income does one get from two millions?" asked the countess.
"Now-a-days, about eighty thousand francs," replied Blondet.
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