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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: will relent if you carry out this horrible purpose."
"Come, now, that is a better reason than the other," said he. "If
there is a reason in the world that could move me it would be that.
But there is too much between La Tour d'Azyr and me. There is an
oath I swore on the dead hand of Philippe de Vilmorin. I could
never have hoped that God would afford me so great an opportunity
of keeping it."
"You have not kept it yet," she warned him.
He smiled at her. "True!" he said. "But nine o'clock will soon be
here. Tell me," he asked her suddenly, "why did you not carry this
request of yours to M. de La Tour d'Azyr?"
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