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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: my dear Walter, let us take boat and return."
"Not till I see the Queen come forth," returned the youth
composedly.
"Thou art mad, stark mad, by the Mass!" answered Blount.
"And thou," said Walter, "art turned coward of the sudden. I
have seen thee face half a score of shag-headed Irish kerns to
thy own share of them; and now thou wouldst blink and go back to
shun the frown of a fair lady!"
At this moment the gates opened, and ushers began to issue forth
in array, preceded and flanked by the band of Gentlemen
Pensioners. After this, amid a crowd of lords and ladies, yet so
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