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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac: monsieur. All Bordeaux will ring with this to-morrow. Our solemn words
are pledged--"
"You wish the happiness of Mademoiselle Natalie."
"Above all things."
"To be happy in France," said the notary, "means being mistress of the
home. She can lead that fool of a Manerville by the nose if she
chooses; he is so dull he has actually seen nothing of all this. Even
if he now distrusts you, he will always trust his wife; and his wife
is YOU, is she not? The count's fate is still within your power if you
choose to play the cards in your hand."
"If that were true, monsieur, I know not what I would not do to show
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