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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: with great facility, and bound up the wound with her scarf,
saying, "I reclaim my arrow, sir knight, which struck where I
aimed it, to admonish you to desist from your enterprise.
I could as easily have lodged it in your heart."
"It did not need," said the knight, with rueful gallantry;
"you have lodged one there already."
"If you mean to say that you love me," said Matilda, "it is more than I
ever shall you: but if you will show your love by no further interfering
with mine, you will at least merit my gratitude."
The knight made a wry face under the double pain of heart and body caused
at the same moment by the material or martial, and the metaphorical
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