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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: "Misery! misery! So near and yet impossible?"
"Would it be the less impossible were you face to face? Let us go
back. We cannot go up without detection, even if our going were of
use. Come back, for God's sake, ere all is lost! If you have seen
her, as you say, you know at least that she is alive, and safe in
his house--"
"As his mistress? or as his wife? Do I know that yet, Amyas, and
can I depart until I know?" There was a few minutes' silence, and
then Amyas, making one last attempt to awaken Frank to the
absurdity of the whole thing, and to laugh him, if possible, out of
it, as argument had no effect--
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