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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: appeared at the windows; the Marquis, noticing them, called a word to
his sons, who at once climbed up to the window and jumped into his
room, and Clement obtained the permission asked by Camille.
All through the house every one was talking of the Marquis' new form
of insanity. When Popinot arrived at about twelve o'clock, accompanied
by his clerk, the portress, when asked for M. d'Espard, conducted him
to the third floor, telling him "as how M. d'Espard, no longer ago
than that very morning, had set on his two children to fight, and
laughed like the monster he was on seeing the younger biting the elder
till he bled, and as how no doubt he longed to see them kill each
other.--Don't ask me the reason why," she added; "he doesn't show
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