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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: would have shown you that God did not create men equals. Well,
you are in case to-night to judge which of us was right, which
rong. You see what is happening here in Paris. You see the foul
spectre of Anarchy stalking through a land fallen into confusion.
Probably you have enough imagination to conceive something of what
must follow. And do you deceive yourself that out of this filth
and ruin there will rise up an ideal form of society? Don't you
understand that society must re-order itself presently out of all
this?
"But why say more? I must have said enough to make you understand
the only thing that really matters - that I killed M. de Vilmorin
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