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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: preferred to give it to you."
Guitant, without reply, rode forward and desired the
sentinel to call Monsieur de Villequier.
"Ah! so you are here!" cried the officer, in the tone of
ill-humor habitual to him; "what the devil are you doing
here?"
"I wish to know -- can you tell me, pray -- is anything
fresh occurring in this part of the town?"
"What do you mean? People cry out, `Long live the king! down
with Mazarin!' That's nothing new; no, we've been used to
those acclamations for some time."
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