Chapter One: I. "This face revealed a dangerous cunning, a calculated integrity, the egoism of a man accustomed to limit his emotions to the joys of avarice and the only being who really meant anything to him, his daughter Eugenie, his sole heiress." II. "For a farm girl who in her youth had reaped nothing but ill treatment, for a beggar in rags given shelter out of charity, Old Grandet's equivocal laugh was a genuine …
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…as nervous and excited. Figurative language is used to describe Nanon's reaction to Charles's letter; "her joy seemed to pour out like smoke". There is no notable syntax; the diction is minor as well. II. This passage is filled with connotation. It has a tone of amusement and joy. Balzac's diction tells a lot of the meaning. This certain passage is ironic in what it says; Eugenie would not do what it says at all.