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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: "Why have you taken off your mask?" cried Thenardier in a rage.
"For fun," retorted the man.
For the last few minutes M. Leblanc had appeared to be watching and
following all the movements of Thenardier, who, blinded and dazzled
by his own rage, was stalking to and fro in the den with full
confidence that the door was guarded, and of holding an unarmed
man fast, he being armed himself, of being nine against one,
supposing that the female Thenardier counted for but one man.
During his address to the man with the pole-axe, he had turned
his back to M. Leblanc.
M. Leblanc seized this moment, overturned the chair with his foot and
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