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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: troubled Macbeth and his wife are wellnigh proof against the
utmost powers of suggestion, or, as in the case of Hubert and
Prince Arthur, compel the criminal to desist from his enterprise.
A man desires to get rid of his father and mother-in-law. By
means of threats, reproaches and inducements he persuades another
man to commit the crime. Taking a gun, the latter sets out
to do the deed; but he realises the heinousness of it and turns
back. "The next day," he says, "at four o'clock in the morning I
started again. I passed the village church. At the sight of the
place where I had celebrated my first communion I was filled with
remorse. I knelt down and prayed to God to make me good. But
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