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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: satisfactory. Now, you know the director of the museum well. Get him
to let you make a copy of it. I give music-lessons to the Comte de
Lanty's daughter, Mademoiselle Marianina, and I'll talk of your copy.
If you succeed, as of course you will, the count will buy it and pay
you forty times the cost of a trip to Sicily."
Two days later I began the work, and, as it suited my taste, I worked
so hotly at it that by the end of three weeks the Lanty family,
escorted by Desroziers, came to see my copy. The count, who seemed to
me a good connoisseur, declared himself satisfied with the work and
bought it. Mademoiselle Marianina, who was the heiress and favorite of
her grand-uncle, was particularly delighted with it. Marianina was
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