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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: rose again and staggered back towards his people, with his right
shoulder shattered and his arm swinging.
"Who did that?" I asked through the smoke, which prevented me from
seeing.
"I, parbleu!" shouted Leblanc. "Sapristi! that black devil wanted to
torture me, Leblanc, the friend of the great Napoleon. Well, at least I
have tortured him whom I meant to kill."
"Yes, you fool," I answered; "and we, too, shall be tortured because of
your wickedness. You have shot a messenger carrying a flag of truce,
and that the Quabies will never forgive. Oh! I tell you that you have
hit us as well as him, who had it not been for you might have been
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