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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: "Then," said Athos, "woe to De Winter, for the child had
done no harm."
"May the devil take me, if the child be not dead," said
Porthos. "There is so much fog in that detestable country,
at least so D'Artagnan declares."
Just as the quaint conclusion reached by Porthos was about
to bring back hilarity to faces now more or less clouded,
hasty footsteps were heard upon the stair and some one
knocked at the door.
"Come in," cried Athos.
"Please your honors," said the host, "a person in a great
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