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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lily of the Valley by Honore de Balzac: children to her breast when danger threatens.
"Jacques! Where is Jacques? What has happened to my boy?"
She did not love me! If she had loved me I should have seen upon her
face when confronted with my sufferings that expression of a lioness
in despair.
"Madame la comtesse, Monsieur le comte is worse."
She breathed more freely and started to run towards Clochegourde,
followed by me and by Madeleine.
"Follow me slowly," she said, looking back; "don't let the dear child
overheat herself. You see how it is; Monsieur de Mortsauf took that
walk in the sun which put him into a perspiration, and sitting under
The Lily of the Valley | 
