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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: excellent gambler if I were not too hot-headed; but I was hot-
headed, just as if I had been drinking. Well, I was not hot-
headed then--"
"Well, but what else could you play for? You had nothing left?"
'Oh, yes, my friend; there was still that diamond left which
sparkles on your finger, and which I had observed yesterday."
"This diamond!" said D'Artagnan, placing his hand eagerly on his
ring.
"And as I am a connoisseur in such things, having had a few of my
own once, I estimated it at a thousand pistoles."
"I hope," said D'Artagnan, half dead with fright, "you made no
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