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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: soul to his heroic pitch? Is not this true knight-errantry, to
redeem to peace and use, and to the glory of that glorious queen
whom God has given to me, a generous soil and a more generous race?
Trustful and tenderhearted they are--none more; and if they be
fickle and passionate, will not that very softness of temper, which
makes them so easily led to evil, make them as easy to be led
towards good? Yes--here, away from courts, among a people who
should bless me as their benefactor and deliverer--what golden days
might be mine! And yet--is this but another angel's mask from that
same cunning fiend ambition's stage? And will my house be indeed
the house of God, the foundations of which are loyalty, and its
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