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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: me, for I have eaten nothing for twenty-four hours.
My life can not retain these sad impressions for long, for my
life is not my own any more than Marguerite's was hers; that is
why I give you all these details on the very spot where they
occurred, in the fear, if a long time elapsed between them and
your return, that I might not be able to give them to you with
all their melancholy exactitude.
Chapter 27
"You have read it?" said Armand, when I had finished the
manuscript.
"I understand what you must have suffered, my friend, if all that
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