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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: of the meaner folk, in answer to the messages dispatched at dawn from
Seaton. The board at which he sat was still cumbered with some glasses
and platters and vestiges of his repast. Below him on his right sat
Ferguson - that prince of plotters - very busy with pen and ink, his
keen face almost hidden by his great periwig; opposite were Lord Grey,
of Werke, and Andrew Fletcher, of Saltoun, whilst, standing at the foot
of the table barely within the circle of candlelight from the branch on
he polished oak, was Nathaniel Wade, the lawyer, who had fled to Holland
on account of his alleged complicity in the Rye House plot and was now
returned a major in the Duke's service. Erect and soldierly of figure,
girt with a great sword and with the butt of a pistol protruding from
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