The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: piteously, and the little maid likewise, till with much ado we
found the track of our comrades, and went up that as best we might:
but at nightfall, by good hap, we met the whole crew coming back,
and with them 200 negroes or more, with bows and arrows. At which
sight was great joy and embracing, and it was a strange thing,
sirs, to see the lady; for before that she was altogether
desperate: and yet she was now a very lioness, as soon as she had
got her love again; and prayed him earnestly not to care for that
gold, but to go forward to the North Sea, vowing to him in my
hearing that she cared no more for poverty than she had cared for
her good name, and then--they being a little apart from the rest--
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