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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: which displeased Mazarin and he offered the prince ten
thousand crowns to renounce them."
"Ah, ha, ha!" laughed the three friends, "not a bad bargain;
and there was no fear of being taken at his word; what did
the prince do then?"
"The prince immediately sent fifty thousand francs to
Mazarin, begging him never to write to him again, and
offered twenty thousand francs more, on condition that he
would never speak to him. What did Mazarin do?"
"Stormed!" suggested Athos.
"Beat the messenger!" cried Porthos.
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