The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: "said, `Come, Bragelonne, draw your sword;' then only I
rushed upon the reptile and cut it in two, just at the
moment when it was rising on its tail and hissing, ere it
sprang upon me. Well, I vow I felt exactly the same
sensation at sight of that man when he said, `Why do you ask
me that?' and looked so strangely at me."
"Then you regret that you did not cut your serpent in two
morsels?"
"Faith, yes, almost," said Raoul.
They had now arrived within sight of the little inn and
could see on the opposite side the procession bearing the
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