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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: buy peace, and patiently and piously await better times?"
Mazarin smiled sarcastically at this speech, which showed
that she had taken the minister's proposal seriously.
Anne's head was bent down -- she had not seen the Italian's
smile; but finding that her question elicited no reply she
looked up.
"Well, you do not answer, cardinal, what do you think about
it?"
"I am thinking, madame, of the allusion made by that
insolent gentleman, whom you have caused to be arrested, to
the Duke of Buckingham -- to him whom you allowed to be
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