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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: "It belongs to one of our companions, who is overtaking us."
"No," said D'Artagnan, "it is in advance."
"That is another thing," said Porthos; and he listened
toward the quarter indicated by D'Artagnan.
"Monsieur," said Musqueton, who, abandoning his horse on the
high road, had come on foot to rejoin his master, "Phoebus
could no longer hold out and ---- "
"Silence!" said Porthos.
In fact, at that moment a second neighing was borne to them
on the night wind.
"It is five hundred feet from here, in advance," said
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