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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: squander on your mistresses."
"I swear to you, father, that Marguerite knew nothing of this
transfer."
"Why, then, do you make it?"
"Because Marguerite, the woman you calumniate, and whom you wish
me to abandon, is sacrificing all that she possesses in order to
live with me."
"And you accept this sacrifice? What sort of a man are you, sir,
to allow Mlle. Gautier to sacrifice anything for you? Come,
enough of this. You will leave this woman. Just now I begged you;
now I command you. I will have no such scandalous doings in my
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