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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: fighting. Every house has a princely heartbreak; each
doorway its untold tale of gallant promise and slow decay.
By night the Rue Chartres is now but a murky fissure,
from which the groping wayfarer sees, flung against the
sky, the tangled filigree of Moorish iron balconies. Ths
old houses of monsieur stand yet, indomitable against the
century, but their essence is gone. The street is one of
ghosts to whosoever can see them.
A faint heartbeat of the street's ancient glory still sur-
vives in a corner occupied by the Café Carabine d'Or.
Once men gathered there to plot against kings, and to
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