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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: uninjured. The inanity of such tricks exasperated Herodias. Besides,
she inquired, why did this man make war upon her? What interest moved
him to such actions? His injurious words to her, uttered before a
throng of listeners, had been repeated and widely circulated; she
heard them whispered everywhere. Against a legion of soldiers she
would have been brave; but this mysterious influence, more pernicious
and powerful than the sword, but impossible to grasp, was maddening!
Herodias strode to and fro upon the terrace, white with rage, unable
to find words to express the emotions that choked her.
She had a haunting fear that the tetrarch might listen to public
opinion after a time, and persuade himself it was his duty to
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