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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: "And I may profit by Monsieur's happiness, and go to bed?"
"Yes, go."
"May the blessings of heaven fall upon Monsieur! But it is not
the less true that that letter--"
And Planchet retired, shaking his head with an air of doubt,
which the liberality of D'Artagnan had not entirely effaced.
Left alone, D'Artagnan read and reread his billet. Then he
kissed and rekissed twenty times the lines traced by the hand of
his beautiful mistress. At length he went to bed, fell asleep,
and had golden dreams.
At seven o'clock in the morning he arose and called Planchet, who
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