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Excerpt from Aspects of Balzac
There are, however, among the essential factors of the Comédie personalities to whom the word passion is hardly appli cable. Nucingen, who stands for ever the crystallisation of the astute financier, whose only restriction is the law, to whom con science is only of account in considering its effect on the conduct of other men, is never passionate Cool and far-seeing in his finance, cool and far-seeing in his rela tions with' his wife, and with his allies in exacting tribute from the world, he is driven to recognise that money cannot buy affec tion either from wife or mistress; but the infidelity of the one he turns to account in his schemes, and the costliness of the other only troubles him because he obtains so small a return for his expenditure.
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