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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac: Matelot; for the smaller trades of Paris are more or less strangers to
each other. Cesar was so vigorously smitten by the beauty of Constance
that he rushed furiously into the shop to buy six linen shirts,
disputing the price a long time, and requiring volumes of linen to be
unfolded and shown to him, precisely like an Englishwoman in the humor
for "shopping." The young person deigned to take notice of Cesar,
perceiving, by certain symptoms known to women, that he came more for
the seller than the goods. He dictated his name and address to the
young lady, who grew very indifferent to the admiration of her
customer once the purchase was made. The poor clerk had had little to
do to win the good graces of Ursula; in such matters he was as silly
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