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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: withheld them.
And now what time discountenanced, Wilding fumed and fretted all in
vain, Sir Rowland Blake, fresh from London and in full flight from
his creditors, flashed like a comet into the Bridgwater heavens. He
dazzled the eyes and might have had for the asking the heart and hand
of Diana Horton - Ruth's cousin. Her heart, indeed, he had without
the asking, for Diana fell straightway in love with him and showed it,
just as he showed that he was not without response to her affection.
There were some tender passages between them; but Blake, for all his
fine exterior, was a beggar, and Diana far from rich, and so he rode
his feelings with a hard grip upon the reins. And then, in an evil
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