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Said gallant fellow took candle below to prevent them from becoming scared in the dark (10)

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I believe the answer is:

nightlight

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'said gallant fellow took candle below to prevent them from becoming scared in' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'dark' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'dark' could be 'night' (it's dark at nighttime) and 'night' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'light' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'the' is the link.

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(Another definition for nightlight that I've seen is " may alleviate fear of the dark".)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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