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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: "Because only one of two things can come of it."
"What?"
"Either I shall not accept: then you will have a grudge against
me; or I shall accept: then you will have a sorry mistress; a
woman who is nervous, ill, sad, or gay with a gaiety sadder than
grief, a woman who spits blood and spends a hundred thousand
francs a year. That is all very well for a rich old man like the
duke, but it is very bad for a young man like you, and the proof
of it is that all the young lovers I have had have very soon left
me." I did not answer; I listened. This frankness, which was
almost a kind of confession, the sad life, of which I caught some
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