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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: to their doom."
"And what was that?" asked half-a-dozen trembling voices.
"Don Sebastian, as I have said, was shot to death with arrows; but
as for the Lady Miranda, the wretches themselves confessed
afterwards, when they received due vengeance for their crimes (as
they did receive it), that after all shameful and horrible
indignities, she was bound to a tree, and there burned slowly in
her husband's sight, stifling her shrieks lest they should wring
his heart by one additional pang, and never taking her eyes, to the
last, off that beloved face. And so died (but not unavenged)
Sebastian de Hurtado and Lucia Miranda,--a Spanish husband and a
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