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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: busied with money matters."
The young attache shot a scrutinizing glance at the apparently calm
face of his partner.
"What!" he exclaimed, with a smile, "can young ladies read the
thoughts of love behind the silent brow?"
"Your brother is in love, then?" she asked, betrayed into a movement
of curiosity.
"Yes; my sister Clara, to whom he is as devoted as a mother, wrote to
me that he had fallen in love this summer with a very pretty girl; but
I have had no further news of the affair. Would you believe that the
poor boy used to get up at five in the morning, and went off to settle
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