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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: unworthy, so that his passion be sincere and strong, that can fail
in time to arouse response." She smiled a little pitiful smile of
unbelief. "Were I a boy," he rejoined, his earnestness vibrating now
in a voice that was usually so calm and level, "offering you
protestations of a callow worship, you might have cause to doubt me.
But I am a man, Ruth - a tried, and haply a sinful man, alas! - a
man who needs you, and who will have you at all costs."
"At all costs?" she echoed, and her lip took on a curl. "And you call
this egotism by the name of love! No doubt you are right," she continued
with an irony that stung him, "for love it is - love of yourself."
"And is not all love of another founded upon the love of self?" he asked
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