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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: serve him at his need, besides that the tools were worth
somewhat. A whistle from the owner brought to his side a nag
that fed quietly on the common, and was accustomed to the signal.
While he accoutred him for the journey, Tressilian drew his own
girths tighter, and in a few minutes both were ready to mount.
At this moment Sludge approached to bid them farewell.
"You are going to leave me, then, my old playfellow," said the
boy; "and there is an end of all our game at bo-peep with the
cowardly lubbards whom I brought hither to have their broad-
footed nags shed by the devil and his imps?"
"It is even so," said Wayland Smith, "the best friends must part,
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