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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: L'honneur toujours fut le soutien!
"And finally, to crown the work, the theme comes in which sounded the
note of fatality at the beginning. Thus, the leading strain, the
magnificent call to the deed:
"Nonnes qui reposez sous cette froide pierre,
M'entendez-vous?
"The career of the music, gloriously worked out, is gloriously
finished by the /allegro vivace/ of the bacchanalian chorus in D
minor. This, indeed, is the triumph of hell! Roll on, harmony, and
wrap us in a thousand folds! Roll on, bewitch us! The powers of
darkness have clutched their prey; they hold him while they dance. The
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