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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: alley-way, the farther end of which opens on a steep street skirting
the church and leading to the gate of Saint-Leonard, along which
Mademoiselle de Verneuil now made her way.
Marie naturally avoided entering the square of the church which was
then above her, and turned towards the Promenade. The magnificence of
the scene which met her eyes silenced for a moment the tumult of her
passions. She admired the vast trend of the valley, which her eyes
took in, from the summit of La Pelerine to the plateau where the main
road to Vitry passes; then her eyes rested on the Nid-aux-Crocs and
the winding gorges of the Val de Gibarry, the crests of which were
bathed in the misty glow of the setting sun. She was almost frightened
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