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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: fine fellow, that one's scruples are carried away in the
torrent of his happiness and gratitude. And his would be a
sordid spirit who would not clap hands at the consummation
(Nov. 1440); when Charles, after having sworn on the
Sacrament that he would never again bear arms against
England, and pledged himself body and soul to the unpatriotic
faction in his own country, set out from London with a light
heart and a damaged integrity.
(1) Dom Plancher, iv. 178-9.
(2) Works, i. 157-63.
In the magnificent copy of Charles's poems, given by our
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