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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: "Mother, I shall speak," replied Veronique. "See! the hand of God is
in all this; I am dying in a red room--"
Madame Sauviat went out, unable to bear those words.
"Aline," she said, "she will speak! she will speak!"
"Ah! madame is out of her mind," cried the faithful maid, who was
bringing sheets. "Fetch the rector, madame."
"Your mistress must be undressed," said Bianchon to the maid.
"It will be very difficult to do it, monsieur; madame is wrapped in a
hair-cloth garment."
"What! in the nineteenth-century can such horrors be revived?" said
the great doctor.
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