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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: dissolved her iciness.
"My poor Andre, why didn't you tell me this at first?"
"For one thing, you didn't give me time; for another, I feared to
shock you with the spectacle of my degradation."
She took him seriously. "But where was the need of it? And why did
you not send us word as I required you of your whereabouts?"
"I was thinking of it only yesterday. I have hesitated for several
reasons."
"You thought it would offend us to know what you were doing?"
"I think that I preferred to surprise you by the magnitude of my
ultimate achievements."
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