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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: "There I recognize my Bianchon!" exclaimed Rastignac.
"Why, how?"
"Well, my dear fellow, you speak of the Marquise d'Espard as if she
were a case for your hospital."
"Do you want to know what I think, Eugene? If you throw over Madame de
Nucingen for this Marquise, you will swap a one-eyed horse for a blind
one."
"Madame de Nucingen is six-and-thirty, Bianchon."
"And this woman is three-and-thirty," said the doctor quickly.
"Her worst enemies only say six-and-twenty."
"My dear boy, when you really want to know a woman's age, look at her
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