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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: dear!"
"You are making game of me, papa. Well, I assure you that I would
rather die in Mademoiselle de Conde's convent than not be the wife of
a peer of France."
She slipped out of her father's arms, and proud of being her own
mistress, went off singing the air of Cara non dubitare, in the
"Matrimonio Segreto."
As it happened, the family were that day keeping the anniversary of a
family fete. At dessert Madame Planat, the Receiver-General's wife,
spoke with some enthusiasm of a young American owning an immense
fortune, who had fallen passionately in love with her sister, and made
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