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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: kindness, which had but too much of condescension in it, we will
receive, at present at least, no excuse; and some such we suppose
to have been the purport of my Lord of Sussex's message."
This was uttered in a tone and with a gesture which made Lord
Sussex's friends who were within hearing tremble. He to whom the
speech was addressed, however, trembled not; but with great
deference and humility, as soon as the Queen's passion gave him
an opportunity, he replied, "So please your most gracious
Majesty, I was charged with no apology from the Earl of Sussex."
"With what were you then charged, sir?" said the Queen, with the
impetuosity which, amid nobler qualities, strongly marked her
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