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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: the dead of night, and was sure they must have been the Jesuits,
and that they had carried off her old man by main force, and
probably, after making use of his services, had killed and salted
him down for provision on their voyage back to the Pope at Rome;
after which she ended by entreating protection against those
"Popish skulkers up to Chapel," who were sworn to do her a
mischief; and by an appeal to Lady Grenville's sense of justice, as
to whether the queen ought not to allow her a pension, for having
had her heart's love turned into a sainted martyr by the hands of
idolatrous traitors.
Lady Grenville (who had a great opinion of Lucy's medical skill,
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