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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: to whom he spoke with a pleasant smile that seemed strangely at
variance with the savage expression in his eyes.--"Our little
bargain still holds good, dear boy; you can accept any time you
like! Do you understand?" And he sang:
"A charming girl is my Fanchette
In her simplicity."
"Don't you trouble yourself," he went on; "I can get in my money.
They are too much afraid of me to swindle me."
The convicts' prison, its language and customs, its sudden sharp
transitions from the humorous to the horrible, its appalling
grandeur, its triviality and its dark depths, were all revealed
Father Goriot | 
