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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: heard part of the conversation, came in.
"You have lost all your scholars," he cried. "I have ruined you!"
The artist took Luigi's hand and that of Ginevra, and joined them.
"Marry one another, my children," he said, with fatherly kindness.
They both dropped their eyes, and their silence was the first avowal
they had made to each other of their love.
"You will surely be happy," said Servin. "There is nothing in life to
equal the happiness of two beings like yourselves when bound together
in love."
Luigi pressed the hand of his protector without at first being able to
utter a word; but presently he said, in a voice of emotion:--
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