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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: marrying that animal."
"And if I were?"
"Ah! In that case affection for you would discover to me some
means of preventing it - unless.. ." He paused.
"Unless?" she demanded, challengingly, drawn to the full of her
sort height, her eyes imperious.
"Unless you could also tell me that you loved him," said he simply,
whereat she was as suddenly and most oddly softened. And then he
added, shaking his head: "But that of course is impossible."
"Why?" she asked him, quite gently now.
"Because you are what you are, Aline - utterly good and pure and
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