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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: with her; withdrawing after two days, was I not like a parasite
of love, afraid of having to pay the bill of the banquet? What! I
had only known Marguerite for thirty-six hours; I had been her
lover for only twenty-four; and instead of being too happy that
she should grant me all that she did, I wanted to have her all to
myself, and to make her sever at one stroke all her past
relations which were the revenue of her future. What had I to
reproach in her? Nothing. She had written to say she was unwell,
when she might have said to me quite crudely, with the hideous
frankness of certain women, that she had to see a lover; and,
instead of believing her letter, instead of going to any street
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