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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: her hand under a pretext of examining them. Charles could not see
without emotion the generous interest his aunt and cousin felt in him;
he knew society in Paris well enough to feel assured that, placed as
he now was, he would find all hearts indifferent or cold. Eugenie thus
appeared to him in the splendor of a special beauty, and from
thenceforth he admired the innocence of life and manners which the
previous evening he had been inclined to ridicule. So when Eugenie
took from Nanon the bowl of coffee and cream, and began to pour it out
for her cousin with the simplicity of real feeling, giving him a
kindly glance, the eyes of the Parisian filled with tears; he took her
hand and kissed it.
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