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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: entirely concealed. The charm of all we do lies in its
unobtrusiveness. If I have made it my task to raise a drooping courage
and restore their natural brightness to gifts which I have dimly
descried, it must all seem to spring from Louis himself.
Such is the mission to which I dedicate myself, a mission surely not
ignoble, and which might well satisfy a woman's ambition. Why, I could
glory in this secret which shall fill my life with interest, in this
task towards which my every energy shall be bent, while it remains
concealed from all but God and you.
I am very nearly happy now, but should I be so without a friendly
heart in which to pour the confession? For how make a confidant of
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