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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: grasping the Marquis's throat, was ready to strangle him on the
slightest attempt to call for assistance.
"Lord of Argyle," he said, "it is now my turn to lay down the
terms of capitulation. If you list to show me the private way by
which you entered the dungeon, you shall escape, on condition of
being my LOCUM TENENS, as we said at the Mareschal-College, until
your warder visits his prisoners. But if not, I will first
strangle you--I learned the art from a Polonian heyduck, who had
been a slave in the Ottoman seraglio--and then seek out a mode of
retreat."
"Villain! you would not murder me for my kindness," murmured
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