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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: were in hiding and still to be betrayed, or for any other
expedient that may alleviate her lot. Still, "she is a good woman
at bottom," said the lodgers who believed that the widow was
wholly dependent upon the money that they paid her, and
sympathized when they heard her cough and groan like one of
themselves.
What had M. Vauquer been? The lady was never very explicit on
this head. How had she lost her money? "Through trouble," was her
answer. He had treated her badly, had left her nothing but her
eyes to cry over his cruelty, the house she lived in, and the
privilege of pitying nobody, because, so she was wont to say, she
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