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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: came in with a lamp--without seeing me, however--and I heard my
father and mother talking with the medical man, whose voice I
recognized.
He had been sent for immediately, and he was explaining the cause
of the accident, of which I understood nothing, however. Then he
sat down and had a glass of liqueur and a biscuit.
He went on talking, and what he then said will remain engraved on
my mind until I die! I think that I can give the exact words
which he used.
"Ah!" said he, "the poor woman! she broke her leg the day of my
arrival here. I had not even had time to wash my hands after
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