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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: utmost extent than we do to another kind of prodigal who has not
a penny left. Their father had given them all he had. For twenty
years he had given his whole heart to them; then, one day, he
gave them all his fortune too. The lemon was squeezed; the girls
left the rest in the gutter."
"The world is very base," said the Vicomtesse, plucking at the
threads of her shawl. She did not raise her head as she spoke;
the words that Mme. de Langeais had meant for her in the course
of her story had cut her to the quick.
"Base? Oh, no," answered the Duchess; "the world goes its own
way, that is all. If I speak in this way, it is only to show that
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