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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: Versailles with his nephew, a fat boy, in reality some fourteen
years of age, but given out as older. They hired a room at the
house of a cooper named Pecquet. M. Beaupre was a very pale
little gentleman, who seemed in excellent spirits, in spite of
the fact that his nephew was clearly anything but well. Indeed,
so sick and ailing did he appear to be that Mme. Pecquet
suggested that his uncle should call in a doctor. But M.
Beaupre said that that was quite unnecessary; he had no faith
in doctors; he would give the boy a good purge. His illness was
due, he said, to a venereal disorder and the drugs which he had
been taking in order to cure it; it was a priest the boy needed
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