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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: "He did not wish it," replied that damned musician, with an
imperturbability and phlegm that deserved a thrashing; "he feared the
emotions of parting."
"Is he so dreadfully hurried that he could not even give a day to his
new and ardent paternity?"
"The truth is, he is an original; what he came to do, he has done;
after that, to his mind, there is nothing to stay for."
"Ah! I understand; he hastens to those high functions he performs at
that Northern court!"
Jacques Bricheteau could no longer mistake the ironical tone in which
these words were said.
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