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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: delivered to Monsieur Gault, and the sentence has just been read to
him."
"And so the fair Madeleine has received the last sacraments?" said la
Pouraille, and he swallowed a deep mouthful of air.
"Poor little Theodore!" cried le Biffon; "he is a pretty chap too.
What a pity to drop your nut" (eternuer dans le son) "so young."
The warder went towards the gate, thinking that Jacques Collin was at
his heels. But the Spaniard walked very slowly, and when he was
getting near to Julien he tottered and signed to la Pouraille to give
him his arm.
"He is a murderer," said Napolitas to the priest, pointing to la
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