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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: she entered the great hall, and he at once perceived there was a
cloud on her brow. Her jealous eye had noticed the martial array
of armed gentlemen and retainers with which the mansion-house was
filled, and her first words expressed her disapprobation. "Is
this a royal garrison, my Lord of Sussex, that it holds so many
pikes and calivers? or have we by accident overshot Sayes Court,
and landed at Our Tower of London?"
Lord Sussex hastened to offer some apology.
"It needs not," she said. "My lord, we intend speedily to take
up a certain quarrel between your lordship and another great lord
of our household, and at the same time to reprehend this
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