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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: Under the Restoration, the celebration of this service became a sort
of scandal; but Mother Marie-des-Anges would never hear of suppressing
it, and the great veneration which has always surrounded her obliged
these cavillers to hold their tongues. This courageous obstinacy had
its reward, under the government of July. To-day Mother Marie-des-
Anges is high in court favor, and there is nothing she cannot obtain
in the most august regions of power; but it is only just to add that
she asks nothing,--not even for her charities, for she provides the
means to do them nobly by the wise manner in which she administers the
property of her convent.
Her gratitude, thus openly shown to the memory of the great
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