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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: rose, there were a dozen spadassins awaiting him in the vestibule,
and this time the men of his own party were less concerned to guard
him. He seemed so entirely capable of guarding himself; he appeared,
for all his circumspection, to have so completely carried the war
into the enemy's camp, so completely to have adopted their own
methods, that his fellows scarcely felt the need to protect him
as yesterday.
As he emerged, he scanned that hostile file, whose air and garments
marked them so clearly for what they were. He paused, seeking the
man he expected, the man he was most anxious to oblige. But M. de
La Tour d'Azyr was absent from those eager ranks. This seemed to
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