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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: remarkable in others. The malice of my curiosity does not stop
here. I proceed to spy out some defect in her shape; and I find
I know not what graces of nature so happily and so liberally
scattered in her person, that the genteelness of others only
seems to be constraint and affectation."
The king--to whom the presence of a beautiful woman was as
sunshine to the earth--at once offered her his affections, the
gallants tendered their homage, the ladies of the court
volunteered the flattery embodied in imitation. And by way of
practically proving his admiration, his majesty graciously
allotted her a pension of four thousand pounds a year, with
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