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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: words, _Le Noir Faineant_. And, to conclude the
whole, an arrow, neatly enough drawn, was described
as the mark of the yeoman Locksley.
The knights heard this uncommon document
read from end to end, and then gazed upon each
other in silent amazement, as being utterly at a
loss to know what it could portend. De Bracy was
the first to break silence by an uncontrollable fit
of laughter, wherein he was joined, though with
more moderation, by the Templar. Front-de-Buf,
on the contrary, seemed impatient of their ill-timed
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