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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: terror at the curses that poured upon me like a storm from heaven!"
Continuing her harangue, she declared that the knowledge that this man
still existed poisoned her very life. When he had been seized and
bound with cords, the soldiers were prepared to stab him if he
resisted, but he had been quite gentle and obedient. After he had been
thrown into prison some one had put venomous serpents into his
dungeon, but strange to say, after a time they had died, leaving him
uninjured. The inanity of such tricks exasperated Herodias. Besides,
she inquired, why did this man make war upon her? What interest moved
him to such actions? His injurious words to her, uttered before a
throng of listeners, had been repeated and widely circulated; she
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