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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: gratitude in the Musketeer toward the procurator's wife.
The hour of dinner soon arrived. They passed into the eating
room--a large dark room situated opposite the kitchen.
The clerks, who, as it appeared, had smelled unusual perfumes
in the house, were of military punctuality, and held their
stools in hand quite ready to sit down. Their jaws moved
preliminarily with fearful threatenings.
"Indeed!" thought Porthos, casting a glance at the three hungry
clerks-for the errand boy, as might be expected, was not
admitted to the honors of the magisterial table. "in my
cousin's place, I would not keep such gourmands! They look
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