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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: hesitatingly:
"Ye-s."
"Then I think you are a damned scoundrel!"
It made him as glad as if I had called him an angel.
"Say the good words again, brother! for surely ye
mean that ye would not betray me an I failed of my
duty."
"Duty? There is no duty in the matter, except the
duty to keep still and let those men get away. They've
done a righteous deed."
He looked pleased; pleased, and touched with ap-
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