The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "I owe you much, you have saved my poor, silly
wife from this beast, and Joan de Tany is my cousin,
so I am doubly beholden to you, Norman of Torn."
The outlaw pretended that he did not see the hand.
"You owe me nothing, Sir Roger, that may not be
paid by a good supper; I have eaten but once in forty-
eight hours."
The outlaw now called to Shandy and his men, telling
them to remain on watch, but to interfere with no one
within the castle.
He then sat at the table with Roger Leybourn and
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