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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: house at the moment when tea was brought in. And my conscience----"
"Yes, yes; the whole Bench, the two Courts, all the profession know
you. I need not repeat what I said about you to his Eminence; but, you
know, 'Caesar's wife must not be suspected.' So we shall not make this
foolish trifle a matter of discipline, but only of proprieties.
Between ourselves, it is not on your account, but on that of the
Bench."
"But, monsieur, if you only knew the kind of woman----" said the
judge, trying to pull his report out of his pocket.
"I am perfectly certain that you have proceeded in this matter with
the strictest independence of judgment. I myself, in the provinces,
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