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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: they swept past him to call upon them excitedly to stop.
"Hi!" he shouted. "Nick Trenchard! Hi! Wilding!" Then, seeing that
they either did not hear or did not heed him, he loosed a volley of
oaths, wheeled his horse about, drove home the spurs, and started in
pursuit. Out of the town he followed them and along the road towards
Walford, shouting and clamouring at first, afterwards in a grim and
angry silence.
Now, despite their natural anxiety for their own safety, Wilding and
Trenchard had by no means abandoned their project of taking cover by
the ford to await the messenger whom Albemarle and the others would
no doubt be sending to Whitehall; and this mad fellow thundering after
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