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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: who was there was another type of Carlist altogether, and his
temperament was that of a trader. He was the chief purveyor of the
Legitimist armies, an honest broker of stores, and enjoyed a great
reputation for cleverness. His important task kept him, of course,
in France, but his young wife, whose beauty and devotion to her
King were well known, represented him worthily at Headquarters,
where his own appearances were extremely rare. The dissimilar but
united loyalties of those two people had been rewarded by the title
of baron and the ribbon of some order or other. The gossip of the
Legitimist circles appreciated those favours with smiling
indulgence. He was the man who had been so distressed and
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