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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: she was his wife. And yet, underlying a certain irrepressible nausea,
came the reflection that, after all, her purpose had been to save his
life. It would have been a sweet thought, sweet enough to have overlaid
that other bitterness, had he not insisted upon setting it down entirely
to her gratitude and her sense of justice. She intended to repay the
debt in which she had stood to him since, at the risk of his own life
and fortune, he had rescued her brother from the clutches of the
Lord-Lieutenant at Taunton.
He sighed heavily as he thought of the results that had attended his
compulsory wedding of her. In the intensity of his passion, in the
blindness of his vanity, which made him confident - gloriously
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