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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: the memories of this family anniversary. They were all three sitting
in Bartolomeo's study. Ginevra guessed her mother's intention by the
timid hesitation on her face, and she smiled sadly.
At this moment a servant announced two notaries, accompanied by
witnesses. Bartolomeo looked fixedly at these persons, whose cold and
formal faces were grating to souls so passionately strained as those
of the three chief actors in this scene. The old man turned to his
daughter and looked at her uneasily. He saw upon her face a smile of
triumph which made him expect some shock; but, after the manner of
savages, he affected to maintain a deceitful indifference as he gazed
at the notaries with an assumed air of calm curiosity. The strangers
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