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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: agreement. Who would have dreamed of such a fetch as that?"
"So I told my good friend the prior, when he came to me to borrow
the thousand crowns. It was Heaven's will. Unexpected like the
thunderbolt, and to be borne as such. Every man must bear his own
burden. How could I lend him aught?"
"Your holiness's money had been all carried off by them before,"
said the intendant, who knew, and none better, the exact contrary.
"Just so--all my scanty savings! desolate in my lone old age. Ah,
senors, had we not had warning of the coming of these wretches from
my dear friend the Marquess of Santa Cruz, whom I remember daily in
my prayers, we had been like to them who go down quick into the
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