The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: Wentworth saluted and turned to leave the room. "If you `ave tole me
true," continued Feversham, turning now to Richard, "you shall `ave t'e
price you ask, and t'e t'anks of t'e King's army. But if not..."
"Oh, it's true enough," broke in Wilding, and his voice was like a
groan, his face overcharged with gloom.
Feversham looked at him; his sneering smile returned.
"Me, I not remember," said he, "that Mr. Westercott `ave include you in
t'e bargain."
Nothing had been further from Wilding's thoughts than such a suggestion.
And he snorted his disdain. The sergeant had fallen back at Feversham's
words, and his men lined the wall of the chamber. The General bade
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