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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: register, wrote in the margin, "PAX, PAX, INQUIT PROPHETA, ET
NON EST PAX." (2) Charles was soon after allied with the
abominable Bernard d'Armagnac, even betrothed or married to a
daughter of his, called by a name that sounds like a
contradiction in terms, Bonne d'Armagnac. From that time
forth, throughout all this monstrous period - a very
nightmare in the history of France - he is no more than a
stalking-horse for the ambitious Gascon. Sometimes the smoke
lifts, and you can see him for the twinkling of an eye, a
very pale figure; at one moment there is a rumour he will be
crowned king; at another, when the uproar has subsided, he
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