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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: Stukely lived like a fool, he died like an honest man."
"Sir Thomas Stukely dead too?" said Amyas.
"Wait a while, lad, and you shall have that tragedy afterwards.
Well, where was I? Oh, Fitzmaurice and the Jesuits land at
Smerwick, with three ships, choose a place for a fort, bless it
with their holy water, and their moppings and their scourings, and
the rest of it, to purify it from the stain of heretic dominion;
but in the meanwhile one of the Courtenays,--a Courtenay of
Haccombe, was it?--or a Courtenay of Boconnock? Silence, Will, I
shall have it in a minute--yes, a Courtenay of Haccombe it was,
lying at anchor near by, in a ship of war of his, cuts out the
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