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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: master if he can receive the sub-prefect of Arcis."
Presently Paradise returned.
"Monsieur begs Monsieur the sub-prefect to come up; he will be
delighted to see him."
"My lad," said Olivier Vinet, who with the two other functionaries had
joined the sub-prefect before the inn, "how much does your master give
a year for a boy of your cut and wits?"
"Give, monsieur! What do you take me for? Monsieur le comte lets
himself be milked, and I'm content."
"That boy was raised in a good school!" said Frederic Marest.
"The highest school, monsieur," said the urchin, amazing the four
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