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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: "What! do I ask a question, and nobody answers me?" said
Monk. "What! do I find a fault, and nobody repairs it? The
fire is still burning, I believe."
Immediately the twenty men rushed forward, seizing pails,
buckets, jars, barrels, and extinguishing the fire with as
much ardor as they had, an instant before employed in
promoting it. But already, and before all the rest,
D'Artagnan had applied a ladder to the house crying, "Athos!
it is I, D'Artagnan! Do not kill me my dearest friend!" And
in a moment the count was clasped in his arms.
In the meantime, Grimaud, preserving his calmness,
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