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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: premature landing could be in contemplation by the Duke. Besides,
were it so, they must unfailingly have definite word of it; and they
had none.
Trenchard was less assured, but Wilding laughed at the old rake's
forebodings, and serenely went about the business of his marriage.
On the eve of the wedding he paid Ruth his last visit in the quality
of a lover, and was received by her in the garden. He found her
looking paler than her wont, and there was a cloud of sadness on her
brow, a haunting sadness in her eyes. It touched him to the soul,
and for a moment he wavered in his purpose. He stood beside her - she
seated on the old lichened seat - and a silence fell between them,
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