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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: to draw her aside. He broke a spell of silence with a dolorous sigh.
"Ruth," said he pensively, "I mind me of the last evening on which you
and I walked here alone."
She flashed him a glance of fear and aversion, and stood still. Under
his brow he watched the quick heave of her bosom, the sudden flow and
abiding ebb of blood in her face - grown now so thin and wistful - and
he realized that before him lay no easy task. He set his teeth for
battle.
"Will you never have a kindness for me, Ruth?" he sighed.
She turned about, her intent to join the others, a dull anger in her
soul. He sat a hand upon her arm. "Wait!" said he, and the tone in
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