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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: pitched all the voices in one key. Mlle. Michonneau heard it, and
did not stir. It was Bianchon who was the first to move; he bent
over his neighbor, and said in a low voice, "If that creature is
going to stop here, and have dinner with us, I shall clear out."
In the twinkling of an eye it was clear that every one in the
room, save Poiret, was of the medical student's opinion, so that
the latter, strong in the support of the majority, went up to
that elderly person.
"You are more intimate with Mlle. Michonneau than the rest of
us," he said; "speak to her, make her understand that she must
go, and go at once."
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