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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac: rancorous minds of the salon du Croisier to the depths. The forage-
contractor, the president, and others who had vowed to ruin the
d'Esgrignons, saw their prey escaping out of their hands. They had
based their schemes of revenge on a young man's follies, and now he
was beyond their reach.
The tendency in human nature, which often gives a bigot a rake for a
daughter, and makes a frivolous woman the mother of a narrow pietist;
that rule of contraries, which, in all probability, is the "resultant"
of the law of similarities, drew Victurnien to Paris by a desire to
which he must sooner or later have yielded. Brought up as he had been
in the old-fashioned provincial house, among the quiet, gentle faces
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