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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: disagreeable as wine is to the English."
"What! Monsieur Musqueton! The English -- do they dislike
wine?"
"They hate it."
"But I have seen them drink it."
"As a punishment. For example, an English prince died one
day because they had put him into a butt of Malmsey. I heard
the Chevalier d'Herblay say so."
"The fool!" cried Blaisois, "I wish I had been in his
place."
"Thou canst be," said Grimaud, writing down his figures.
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