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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: "When I see her majesty embarrassed, I shall conduct her to
Rueil, make her enter the orangery and show her a certain
spring which turns a box."
"Enough, sir," muttered the cardinal, "you have said enough;
where is the treaty?"
"Here it is," replied Aramis. "Sign, my lord," and he gave
him a pen.
Mazarin arose, walked some moments, thoughtful, but not
dejected.
"And when I have signed," he said, "what is to be my
guarantee?"
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