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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: to play, accepted the part very willingly. She feels confident of
being able, after half an hour's conversation, to remove the painful
feeling from your friend's mind, and drive away the clouds between
you.
While writing this long letter, I have sent for news of his condition.
He is going on favorably, and the physicians say that, barring all
unforeseen accidents, his friends need have no anxiety as to his
state. It seems he is an object of general interest, for, to use the
expression of my valet, people are "making cue" to leave their names
at his door. It must be added that the Duke de Rhetore is not liked,
which may partly account for this sympathy. The duke is stiff and
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