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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: There was one who was shouting: "Let us exterminate them to the last
man and die at the point of our bayonet." This man had no bayonet.
Another spread out over his coat the cross-belt and cartridge-box
of a National Guardsman, the cover of the cartridge-box being
ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: Public Order.
There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the legions,
few hats, no cravats, many bare arms, some pikes. Add to this,
all ages, all sorts of faces, small, pale young men, and bronzed
longshoremen. All were in haste; and as they helped each other,
they discussed the possible chances. That they would receive
succor about three o'clock in the morning--that they were sure
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