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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: every one, of their previous interview. The king replied
that the words spoken in that interview had borne their
fruit, and that he desired another under the same
conditions. Juxon turned to those present and begged them to
leave him and his assistant alone with the king. Every one
withdrew. As soon as the door was closed:
"Sire," said Aramis, speaking rapidly, "you are saved; the
London executioner has vanished. His assistant broke his leg
last night beneath your majesty's window -- the cry we heard
was his -- and there is no executioner nearer at hand than
Bristol."
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