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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: suspected.
Nevertheless, on some great occasions, when promotion depends on the
decision taken, many a wife, like Amelie, has helped the lawyer in his
study of a case. And, after all, these exceptions, which, of course,
are easily denied, since they remain unknown, depend entirely on the
way in which the struggle between two natures has worked out in home-
life. Now, Madame Camusot controlled her husband completely.
When all in the house were asleep, the lawyer and his wife sat down to
the desk, where the magistrate had already laid out the documents in
the case.
"Here are the notes, forwarded to me, at my request, by the Prefet of
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