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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: "In that case I am lost. I will go and throw myself at the
king's feet."
"But, Baisemeaux, I can hardly believe what you tell me;
besides, since the Bastile is capable of producing fifty
thousand francs a year, why have you not tried to screw one
hundred thousand out of it?"
"Because I am an honest man, M. d'Artagnan, and because my
prisoners are fed like ambassadors."
"Well, you're in a fair way to get out of your difficulties;
give yourself a good attack of indigestion with your
excellent living, and put yourself out of the way between
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