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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: Souef. So great were his pride and joy on the conclusion of the
latter bargain that he amused himself by rehearsing on paper his
future style and title: "Antoine Francois de Cyrano Derues de
Bury, Seigneur de Buisson-Souef et Valle Profonde." He is worthy
of Thackeray's pen, this little grocer-snob, with his grand and
ruinous acquaintance with the noble and the great, his spurious
titles, his unwearied climbing of the social ladder.
The confiding, if willing, dupe of aristocratic impecuniosity,
Derues was a past master of the art of duping others. From the
moment of the purchase of Buisson-Souef all his art was employed
in cajoling the trusting and simple de Lamottes. Legally
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