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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: the interests of his Swedish incarnation, the chief of the detective
police evaded the trap. He did better. The faucet being open, he
poured forth such an abundance of erudition and detailed
circumstances, he related so many curious and secret anecdotes,
especially relating to the /coup d'etat/ by which, in 1772, Gustavus
III. had freed his crown,--in short, he was so precise and so
interesting that as they left the table Emile Blondet said to
Bixiou,--
"I thought, as you did, that a foreign count in the hands of a
marriage agent was a very suspicious character; but he knows the court
of Sweden in a way that it was quite impossible to get out of books.
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