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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: have already met together and formed a pact for our
mutual protection the King must surely realize that the
time for temporizing be past, and that unless he would
have a civil war upon his hands he must keep the
promises he so glibly makes, instead of breaking them
the moment De Montfort's back be turned."
"He fears his brother-in-law," interrupted another of
the knights, "even more than the devil fears holy water.
I was in attendance on his majesty some weeks since
when he was going down the Thames upon the royal
barge. We were overtaken by as severe a thunder storm
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