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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: the intended nuptials of your fair daughter; yet will you, I trust,
owe me no displeasure for my agency herein, seeing that the noble
maiden might otherwise by this time have been the bride of an outlaw."
"I am very much obliged to you, sir," said the baron;
"very exceedingly obliged. Your solicitude for my daughter is
truly paternal, and for a young man and a stranger very singular
and exemplary: and it is very kind withal to come to the relief
of my insufficiency and inexperience, and concern yourself
so much in that which concerns you not."
"You misconceive the knight, noble baron," said the friar.
"He urges not his reason in the shape of a preconceived intent,
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