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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: 'You will be paid for it,' said he. 'You did well for yourself and
better for your king.'
'If I had thought I was injuring my emperor,' said I, 'I would have
let M. de Mauseant burn in hell ere I had helped him, and be sure
of that! I saw in him only a private person in a difficulty: I let
him go in private charity; not even to profit myself will I suffer
it to be misunderstood.'
'Well, well,' said the lawyer, 'no matter now. This is a foolish
warmth - a very misplaced enthusiasm, believe me! The point of the
story is that M. de Mauseant spoke of you with gratitude, and drew
your character in such a manner as greatly to affect your uncle's
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