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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac: dishes to no purpose, the click-clack of a postilion was heard in the
Val-Noble.
"'Tis he!" she said to herself, the snap of the whip echoing in her
heart.
True enough; heralded by all this gossip, a post-chaise, in which was
a single gentleman, made so great a sensation coming down the rue
Saint-Blaise and turning into the rue du Cours that several little
gamains and some grown persons followed it, and stood in groups about
the gate of the hotel Cormon to see it enter. Jacquelin, who foresaw
his own marriage in that of his mistress, had also heard the click-
clack in the rue Saint-Blaise, and had opened wide the gates into the
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