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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: ---- "
"I come on the part of his majesty the king of Great Britain
to announce to the king of France" -- Mazarin frowned -- "to
announce to the king of France," continued Athos,
imperturbably, "the happy restoration of his majesty Charles
II. to the throne of his ancestors."
This shade did not escape his cunning eminence. Mazarin was
too much accustomed to mankind, not to see in the cold and
almost haughty politeness of Athos, an index of hostility,
which was not of the temperature of that hot-house called a
court.
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