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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: that cannot manage your undertaking quietly, but
you must bring this nest of hornets about my ears!''
``Of hornets?'' said De Bracy; ``of stingless
drones rather; a band of lazy knaves, who take to
the wood, and destroy the venison rather than labour
for their maintenance.''
``Stingless!'' replied Front-de-Buf; ``fork-headed
shafts of a cloth-yard in length, and these
shot within the breadth of a French crown, are
sting enough.''
``For shame, Sir Knight!'' said the Templar.
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