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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: of the other personages whom the reader has already been made
acquainted with, as friends and customers of Giles Gosling, had
already formed their wonted circle around the evening fire, and
were talking over the news of the day.
A lively, bustling, arch fellow, whose pack, and oaken ellwand
studded duly with brass points, denoted him to be of Autolycus's
profession, occupied a good deal of the attention, and furnished
much of the amusement, of the evening. The pedlars of those
days, it must be remembered, were men of far greater importance
than the degenerate and degraded hawkers of our modern times. It
was by means of these peripatetic venders that the country trade,
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