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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: --a thousand crowns--ten thousand crowns--a hundred thousand crowns--I
offer you two hundred thousand crowns!"
The voice became so lamentable that Mademoiselle de Verneuil forgot
her own danger and uttered an exclamation.
"Who spoke?" asked Marche-a-Terre.
The Chouans looked about them with terrified eyes. These men, so brave
in fight, were unable to face a ghost. Pille-Miche alone continued to
listen to the promises which the flames were now extracting from his
victim.
"Five hundred thousand crowns--yes, I'll give them," cried the victim.
"Well, where are they?" answered Pille-Miche, tranquilly.
The Chouans | 
