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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: the murder in such a manner as should insure his impunity.
"My beloved," went on Paquita, "speak to me; do not leave me without
one loving farewell! I would not keep in my heart the terror which you
have just inspired in it. . . . Will you speak?" she said, stamping
her foot with anger.
De Marsay, for all reply, gave her a glance, which signified so
plainly, "/You must die!/" that Paquita threw herself upon him.
"Ah, well, you want to kill me! . . . If my death can give you any
pleasure--kill me!"
She made a sign to Cristemio, who withdrew his foot from the body of
the young man, and retired without letting his face show that he had
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