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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ferragus by Honore de Balzac: some danger, and you ought to have near you some devoted person who'll
understand a mere sign, and whom you can safely trust. Count on me."
"Even to help me in killing some one?"
"The deuce! the deuce!" said Jacquet, repeating, as it were, the same
musical note. "I have two children and a wife."
Jules pressed his friend's hand and went away; but returned
immediately.
"I forgot the letter," he said. "But that's not all, I must reseal
it."
"The deuce! the deuce! you opened it without saving the seal; however,
it is still possible to restore it. Leave it with me and I'll bring it
Ferragus | 
