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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: Sheffield spurs a-piece--you've a good one there to your side, sir:
but don't you think a man might carry two now, and fight as they
say those Chineses do, a sword to each hand? You could kill more
that way, Captain Leigh, I reckon?"
Amyas half laughed.
"One will do, Mr. Salterne, if one is quick enough with it."
"Humph!--Ah--No use being in a hurry. I haven't been in a hurry.
No--I waited for you; and here you are and welcome, sir! Here
comes supper, a light matter, sir, you see. A capon and a brace of
partridges. I had no time to feast you as you deserve."
And so he ran on all supper-time, hardly allowing Amyas to get a
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