The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: pistoles for you if we are in time. Whip up, man!"
She thrust Aline into the carriage, and sprang after her with the
energy of a girl. The heavy vehicle - too heavy by far for this
race with time - was moving before she had taken her seat. Rocking
and lurching it went, earning the maledictions of more than one
pedestrian whom it narrowly avoided crushing against a wall or
trampling underfoot.
Madame sat back with closed eyes and trembling lips. Her face
showed very white and drawn. Aline watched her in silence. Almost
it seemed to her that Mme. de Plougastel was suffering as deeply
as herself, enduring an anguish of apprehension as great as her own.
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