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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: good-looking to accept the part that you offer me."
"So you refuse?"
"Yes.
"Would you rather take me for nothing? It is I who wouldn't
accept then. Think it over, my dear Olympe; if I had sent some
one to offer you these three hundred louis on my behalf, on the
conditions I attach to them, you would have accepted. I preferred
to speak to you myself. Accept without inquiring into my reasons;
say to yourself that you are beautiful, and that there is nothing
surprising in my being in love with you."
Marguerite was a woman in the same position as Olympe, and yet I
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