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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the statement Rokoff had written and signed.
De Coude took it and read. D'Arnot and Monsieur Flaubert
had drawn near. They were interested spectators of this
strange ending of a strange duel. None spoke until De
Coude had quite finished, then he looked up at Tarzan.
"You are a very brave and chivalrous gentleman," he said.
"I thank God that I did not kill you."
De Coude was a Frenchman. Frenchmen are impulsive. He threw
his arms about Tarzan and embraced him. Monsieur Flaubert
embraced D'Arnot. There was no one to embrace the doctor.
So possibly it was pique which prompted him to interfere,
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