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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: was very fearful - having through his connection with the Cause every
reason so to be. Blake, on the other hand, conscious of his innocence
of any plotting, was impatient of his position, and a thought
contemptuous. It was he who, upon being ushered by the constable and
his men into the august presence of the Lord-Lieutenant, clamoured
to know precisely of what he was accused that he might straightway
clear himself.
Albemarle reared his great massive head, smothered in a mighty black
peruke, and scowled upon the florid London beau. A black-visaged
gentleman was Christopher Monk. His pendulous cheeks, it is true,
were of a sallow pallor, but what with his black wig, black eyebrows,
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