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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: queen, "for if you act in that manner, and violate
hospitality to that extent, I will invoke the severity of
the king against you."
"Do you threaten me, madame?" exclaimed Philip, almost in
tears; "do you threaten me in the midst of my complaints!"
"I do not threaten you; I do but place an obstacle in the
path of your hasty anger. I maintain that, to adopt towards
the Duke of Buckingham, or any other Englishman, any
rigorous measure -- to take even a discourteous step towards
him, would be to plunge France and England into the most
disastrous disagreement. Can it be possible that a prince of
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