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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: shoulder for stealing a silver caudle-cup from Dame Snort of
Hogsditch."
"Nay, there you lie like a knave, uncle," said the stranger,
slipping aside his ruff; and turning down the sleeve of his
doublet from his neck and shoulder; "by this good day, my
shoulder is as unscarred as thine own.
"What, Mike, boy--Mike!" exclaimed the host;--"and is it thou,
in good earnest? Nay, I have judged so for this half-hour; for I
knew no other person would have ta'en half the interest in thee.
But, Mike, an thy shoulder be unscathed as thou sayest, thou must
own that Goodman Thong, the hangman, was merciful in his office,
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