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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: possibly go. It was for him to make the positive proposal to
which she had thus thrown wide the door.
"Mademoiselle, you cannot mean... "
"I do, monsieur... irrevocably, please to understand." He looked
at her with eyes of misery, his handsome, manly face as pale as
she had ever seen it. The hand he had been holding out in protest
began to shake. He lowered it to his side again, lest she should
perceive its tremor. Thus a brief second, while the battle was
fought within him, the bitter engagement between his desires and
what he conceived to be the demands of his honour, never perceiving
how far his honour was buttressed by implacable vindictiveness.
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