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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: haltingly, quivering with emotion, but I advanced, for I am
brave--I advanced like a knight of the dark ages.
At every step I found something that belonged to me; my brushes,
my books, my tables, my silks, my arms, everything, except the
bureau full of my letters, and that I could not discover.
I walked on, descending to the dark galleries, in order to ascend
next to the floors above. I was alone; I called out, nobody
answered, I was alone; there was no one in that house--a house as
vast and tortuous as a labyrinth.
Night came on, and I was compelled to sit down in the darkness on
one of my own chairs, for I had no desire to go away. From time
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