The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: matters were so concluded that Amyas Leigh found himself riding
joyfully towards Plymouth, by the side of Sir Richard, and being
handed over to Captain Drake, vanished for three years from the
good town of Bideford.
And now he is returned in triumph, and the observed of all
observers; and looks round and round, and sees all faces whom he
expects, except one; and that the one which he had rather see than
his mother's? He is not quite sure. Shame on himself!
And now the prayers being ended, the rector ascends the pulpit, and
begins his sermon on the text:--
"The heaven and the heaven of heavens are the Lord's; the whole
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