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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: obedience, such as my mother has just been urging on me) a child were
born to us, do you suppose that I could feel towards it as I would
towards one born of our common love? A passionate love may not be
necessary in marriage, but, at least, you will admit that there should
be no repugnance. Our position will not be without its dangers; in a
country life, such as ours will be, ought we not to bear in mind the
evanescent nature of passion? Is it not simple prudence to make
provision beforehand against the calamities incident to change of
feeling?"
He was greatly astonished to find me at once so reasonable and so apt
at reasoning; but he made me a solemn promise, after which I took his
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