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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: unknown except to the most intimate of his friends. Mordaunt
was among these.
"It is you, Mordaunt," he said. "You are late."
"General, I wished to see the ceremony to the end, which
delayed me."
"Ah! I scarcely thought you were so curious as that."
"I am always curious to see the downfall of your honor's
enemies, and he was not among the least of them. But you,
general, were you not at Whitehall?"
"No," said Cromwell.
There was a moment's silence.
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