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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: worm-eaten shutter was opened, or rather pushed ajar, but closed
again as soon as the light from a miserable lamp which burned in
the corner had shone upon the baldric, sword belt, and pistol
pommels of D'Artagnan. Nevertheless, rapid as the movement had
been, D'Artagnan had had time to get a glimpse of the head of an
old man.
"In the name of heaven!" cried he, "listen to me; I have been
waiting for someone who has not come. I am dying with anxiety.
Has anything particular happened in the neighborhood? Speak!"
The window was again opened slowly, and the same face appeared,
only it was now still more pale than before.
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