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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: fellows with beef and ale for a twelvemonth, and let them have
their evening at the alehouse once a week, to do good to the
publican."
"If you have seen Will Badger, mine host," said Tressilian, "you
have heard enough of Sir Hugh Robsart; and therefore I will but
say, that the hospitality you boast of hath proved somewhat
detrimental to the estate of his family, which is perhaps of the
less consequence, as he has but one daughter to whom to bequeath
it. And here begins my share in the tale. Upon my father's
death, now several years since, the good Sir Hugh would willingly
have made me his constant companion. There was a time, however,
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