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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: for the second act. He was a young dandy, and his habiliments, even
to his gloves, were entirely yellow.
"Now say you don't know!" he shouted, gesticulating. "Today's my
patron saint's day!"
"What?" asked Simonne, coming up smilingly, as though attracted by
the huge nose and the vast, comic mouth of the man. "D'you answer
to the name of Achille?"
"Exactly so! And I'm going to get 'em to tell Madame Bron to send
up champagne after the second act."
For some seconds a bell had been ringing in the distance. The long-
drawn sound grew fainter, then louder, and when the bell ceased a
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