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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: They were brave fellows for all the mischief they did here, and they
seemed to have little heart in the service of the Popish King. It was
the officers drove them on to all this damage, and once they'd started
- well, there were rogues amongst them saw a chance of plunder, and they
took it. I have sought to put the place to rights; but they did some
woeful, wanton mischief."
Wilding sighed. "It's little matter, perhaps, as the place is no longer
mine.
"No... no longer yours, sir?"
"I'm an attainted outlaw, Walters," he explained. "They'll bestow it
on some Popish time-server, unless King Monmouth can follow up by
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