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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: "Those who please everybody, please nobody," she added; "and the worst
of all faults is to have none."
Like all girls who are in love, Emilie cherished the hope of being
able to hide her feelings at the bottom of her heart by putting the
Argus-eyes that watched on the wrong tack; but by the end of a
fortnight there was not a member of the large family party who was not
in this little domestic secret. When Monsieur Longueville called for
the third time, Emilie believed it was chiefly for her sake. This
discovery gave her such intoxicating pleasure that she was startled as
she reflected on it. There was something in it very painful to her
pride. Accustomed as she was to be the centre of her world, she was
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