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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: "Like those of a jackanape simpering at a chestnut," said Michael
Lambourne.
"Up started of a sudden," continued Goldthred, without heeding
the interruption, "Tony Foster himself, with a cudgel in his
hand--"
"And broke thy head across, I hope, for thine impertinence," said
his entertainer.
"That were more easily said than done," answered Goldthred
indignantly; "no, no--there was no breaking of heads. It's true,
he advanced his cudgel, and spoke of laying on, and asked why I
did not keep the public road, and such like; and I would have
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