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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: beheld there some few hours earlier. Loud and offensive was he now
in self-laudation, and so indifferent to all else that he left
unobserved the little smile, half wistful, half scornful, that visited
his sister's lips when he sneeringly told how Mr. Wilding had chosen
that better part of valour which discretion is alleged to be.
It needed Diana, who, blinded by no sisterly affection, saw him exactly
as he was, and despised him accordingly, to enlighten him. It may also
be that in doing so at once she had ends of her own to serve; for Sir
Rowland was still of the company.
"Mr. Wilding afraid?" she cried, her voice so charged with derision
that it inclined to shrillness. "La! Richard, Mr. Wilding was never
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