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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac: "high," and had doubtless raised that accursed pimple! With what joy
they said to each other: "No doubt, no doubt, it WAS the hare!"
"Mariette over-seasoned it," said mademoiselle. "I am always telling
her to do so lightly for my uncle and for me; but Mariette has no more
memory than--"
"The hare," said Josette.
"Just so," replied Mademoiselle; "she has no more memory than a hare,
--a very just remark."
Four times a year, at the beginning of each season, Mademoiselle
Cormon went to pass a certain number of days on her estate of
Prebaudet. It was now the middle of May, the period at which she
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