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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: must continue our journey. You will excuse us, sir, but we
are told that a battle is expected and we do not wish to
arrive the day after it."
"Go, my young sirs," said the sick man, "and may you both be
blessed for your piety. You have done for me, as you
promised, all that you could do. As for me I can only
repeat, may God protect you and all dear to you!"
"Sir," said De Guiche to his tutor, "we will precede you,
and you can rejoin us on the road to Cambrin."
The host was at his door and everything was prepared -- bed,
bandages, and lint; and a groom had gone to Lens, the
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