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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: allowing me to incite that hardened heart to repentance. God has given
me a power of speech which produces great changes. I crush men's
hearts; I open them.--What are you afraid of? Send me with an escort
of gendarmes, of turnkeys--whom you will."
"I will inquire whether the prison chaplain will allow you to take his
place," said Monsieur Gault.
And the governor withdrew, struck by the expression, perfectly
indifferent, though inquisitive, with which the convicts and the
prisoners on remand stared at this priest, whose unctuous tones lent a
charm to his half-French, half-Spanish lingo.
"How did you come in here, Monsieur l'Abbe?" asked the youth who had
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