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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: Fortune has turned upside down for me. Here I am looking out for a
place!--We have neither of us been very wise. If Monsieur le Baron
would take me as cook to Madame Esther, I would be the most devoted of
slaves. I should be useful to you, monsieur, to keep an eye on Eugenie
and madame."
"Dere is no hope of dat," said the Baron. "I cannot succeet in being
de master, I am let such a tance as----"
"As a top," Asie put in. "Well, you have made others dance, daddy, and
the little slut has got you, and is making a fool of you.--Heaven is
just!"
"Just?" said the Baron. "I hafe not sent for you to preach to me----"
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