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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: will you not go up?"
"Pass on before me, I beg of you."
"As the late cardinal used to say to the late king, `only to
show you the way, sire.'" And Aramis ascended the ladder
quickly and reached the window in an instant.
D'Artagnan followed, but less nimbly, showing plainly that
this mode of ascent was not one to which he was accustomed.
"I beg your pardon," said Aramis, noticing his awkwardness;
"if I had known that I was to have the honor of your visit I
should have procured the gardener's ladder; but for me alone
this is good enough."
Twenty Years After | 
