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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: the tent.
'What do you want?' says John.*
'Why, what do you intend to do?' says the constable. 'To do,' says
John; 'what would you have us to do?' Constable. Why don't you be
gone? What do you stay there for?
John. Why do you stop us on the king's highway, and pretend to
refuse us leave to go on our way?
Constable. We are not bound to tell you our reason, though we did
let you know it was because of the plague.
John. We told you we were all sound and free from the plague,
which we were not bound to have satisfied you of, and yet you pretend
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