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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: be conscionable; great and secret service may deserve both this
and a better thing. And now let thy knave come and pluck off my
boots. Get us some dinner, and a cup of thy best wine. I must
visit this mavis, brave in apparel, unruffled in aspect, and gay
in temper."
They parted and at the hour of noon, which was then that of
dinner, they again met at their meal, Varney gaily dressed like a
courtier of the time, and even Anthony Foster improved in
appearance, as far as dress could amend an exterior so
unfavourable.
This alteration did not escape Varney. Then the meal was
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