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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: what you have just, in very excusable anger, vented, and to return
with me, you will find me still, as ever, your most faithful
servant and host. If otherwise, you have only to name whither you
wish your mails to be sent, and I shall, with unfeigned sorrow,
obey your commands concerning them."
The Spaniard bowed stiffly, answered, "To the nearest tavern,
senor," and then strode away. His baggage was sent thither. He
took a boat down to Appledore that very afternoon, and vanished,
none knew whither. A very courteous note to Lady Grenville,
enclosing the jewel which he had been used to wear round his neck,
was the only memorial he left behind him: except, indeed, the scar
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