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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: fish. If Parisians know these creations peculiar to their soil,
foreigners have no suspicion of their existence; and Mere Cardinal--
technologically speaking, of course, deserved all the interest she
excited in Theodose. So many women of her species may be met with in
the streets that the passers-by give them no more attention than they
give to the three thousand pictures of the Salon. But as she stood in
Cerizet's office the Cardinal had all the value of an isolated
masterpiece; she was a complete and perfect type of her species.
The woman was mounted on muddy sabots; but her feet, carefully wrapped
in gaiters, were still further protected by stout and thick-ribbed
stockings. Her cotton gown, adorned with a glounce of mud, bore the
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