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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: Ravenouillet in Paris."
Passing in front of the porter's lodge, Gazonal saw Mademoiselle
Lucienne Ravenouillet holding in her hand a music score (she was a
pupil of the Conservatoire), her father reading a newspaper, and
Madame Ravenouillet with a package of letters to be carried up to the
lodgers.
"Thanks, Monsieur Bixiou!" said the girl.
"She's not a rat," explained Leon to his cousin; "she is the larva of
the grasshopper."
"Here's the history of Ravenouillet," continued Bixiou, when the three
friends reached the boulevard. "In 1831 Massol, the councillor of
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