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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: is not fatigue that saddens you to-night."
"It is annoyance, then."
"What annoyance?"
"That of this evening."
"The mad conduct of the Duke of Buckingham, do you mean?"
"Of course; is it not vexatious for us, the representatives
of our sovereign master, to witness the devotion of an
Englishman to our future mistress, the second lady in point
of rank in the kingdom?"
"Yes, you are right; but I do not think any danger is to be
apprehended from Buckingham."
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