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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: clothes with a tything-man outside his door and another on guard
under his window, the constable and his third myrmidon made an
exhaustive search of the house. All they found of interest was a letter
signed "Monmouth," which they took from the secret drawer of a secretary
in the library; but that, it seemed, was all they sought, for having
found it, they proceeded no further with their reckless and destructive
ransacking.
With that letter and the person of Richard Westmacott, the constable
and his men took their departure, and rode back to Taunton, leaving
alarm and sore distress at Lupton House. In her despair poor Ruth was
all for following her brother, in the hope that at least by giving
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