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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: couple of bad companions round the corner.
Catherine de Vausselles (or de Vaucel - the change is within
the limits of Villon's licence) had plainly delighted in the
poet's conversation; near neighbours or not, they were much
together and Villon made no secret of his court, and suffered
himself to believe that his feeling was repaid in kind. This
may have been an error from the first, or he may have
estranged her by subsequent misconduct or temerity. One can
easily imagine Villon an impatient wooer. One thing, at
least, is sure: that the affair terminated in a manner
bitterly humiliating to Master Francis. In presence of his
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