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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: him kept rankling, and still more deeply rankled the thought of
her possible betrothal to M. de La Tour d'Azyr.
This it was that brought forcibly to his mind the self-imposed but
by now half-forgotten mission that he had made his own. He had
boasted that he would make the voice which M. de La Tour d'Azyr had
sought to silence ring through the length and breadth of the land.
And what had he done of all this that he had boasted? He had
incited the mob of Rennes and the mob of Nantes in such terms as
poor Philippe might have employed, and then because of a hue and
cry he had fled like a cur and taken shelter in the first kennel
that offered, there to lie quiet and devote himself to other
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