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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: confessed my sin with tears, and when she threatened punishment,
pleaded that the offence had avenged itself heavily already,--for
what worse punishment than exile from the sunlight of her presence,
into the outer darkness which reigns where she is not? Then she
was pleased to ask me, how I could dare, as her sworn servant, to
desert her side in such dangerous times as these; and asked me how
I should reconcile it to my conscience, if on my return I found her
dead by the assassin's knife? At which most pathetic demand I
could only throw myself at once on my own knees and her mercy, and
so awaited my sentence. Whereon, with that angelic pity which
alone makes her awfulness endurable, she turned to Hatton and
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