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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: her mother's foresight, and, on examining the gifts, she found a
purse, in which the baroness had put the money belonging to her
daughter, adding to it the amount of her own savings. The purse was
accompanied by a letter, in which the mother implored the daughter to
forego the fatal marriage if it were still possible to do so. It had
cost her, she said, untold difficulty to send these few things to her
daughter; she entreated her not to think her hard if, henceforth, she
were forced to abandon her to want; she feared she could never again
assist her; but she blessed her and prayed for her happiness in this
fatal marriage, if, indeed, she persisted in making it, assuring her
that she should never cease to think of her darling child. Here the
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