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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: to allow Mlle. Gautier to sacrifice anything for you? Come,
enough of this. You will leave this woman. Just now I begged you;
now I command you. I will have no such scandalous doings in my
family. Pack up your things and get ready to come with me."
"Pardon me, father," I said, "but I shall not come."
"And why?"
"Because I am at an age when no one any longer obeys a command."
My father turned pale at my answer.
"Very well, sir," he said, "I know what remains to be done."
He rang and Joseph appeared.
"Have my things taken to the Hotel de Paris," he said to my
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