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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: descending from the Acropolis with hurried steps. A great clamour
arose in the Mappalian district. Soon the streets were astir, and the
soldiers were everywhere beginning to arm themselves upon their
breasts; then they ran quickly to the square of Khamon to take their
places in the ranks. No one was allowed to follow them or even to
speak to them, or to approach the ramparts; for some minutes the whole
town was silent as a great tomb. The soldiers as they leaned on their
lances were thinking, and the others in the houses were sighing.
At sunset the army went out by the western gate; but instead of taking
the road to Tunis or making for the mountains in the direction of
Utica, they continued their march along the edge of the sea; and they
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