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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: the financiers, which wanted decimating."
"Picked out by whom?"
"By necessity, sire," replied Colbert, coldly.
"Necessity! -- a great word," murmured the young king.
"A great goddess, sire."
"They were devoted friends of the superintendent, were they
not?"
"Yes, sire; friends who would have given up their lives for
Monsieur Fouquet."
"They have given them, monsieur," said the king.
"That is true; -- but uselessly, by good luck, -- which was
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