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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac: "Well, is that her writing?"
"Good God!" gasped Hulot, sitting down in dismay. "I see all the
things she uses--her caps, her slippers. Why, how long since--?"
Crevel nodded that he understood, and took a packet of bills out of
the little inlaid cabinet.
"You can see, old man. I paid the decorators in December, 1838. In
October, two months before, this charming little place was first
used."
Hulot bent his head.
"How the devil do you manage it? I know how she spends every hour of
her day."
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