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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: in Paris. He was conducted up the wide, white-painted, crimson-
carpeted staircase, between the gilded balusters and masses of
flowering plants, to Mme. de Beauseant's apartments. He did not
know the rumor current about Mme. de Beauseant, one of the
biographies told, with variations, in whispers, every evening in
the salons of Paris.
For three years past her name had been spoken of in connection
with that of one of the most wealthy and distinguished Portuguese
nobles, the Marquis d'Ajuda-Pinto. It was one of those innocent
liaisons which possess so much charm for the two thus attached to
each other that they find the presence of a third person
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