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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: hither! May it be that, in some fashion or other, you want
me?"
"Thank God, no, my friend," said D'Artagnan, "it is nothing
of that kind. -- I am rich and free."
"Rich!" exclaimed Aramis.
"Yes, rich for me; not for you or Porthos, understand. I
have an income of about fifteen thousand livres.
Aramis looked at him suspiciously. He could not believe --
particularly on seeing his friend in such humble guise --
that he had made so fine a fortune. Then D'Artagnan, seeing
that the hour of explanations was come, related the history
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