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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: for the high rank of the marshals of the lists would
have been held degraded, had they condescended
to superintend the sports of the yeomanry.
One by one the archers, stepping forward, delivered
their shafts yeomanlike and bravely. Of
twenty-four arrows, shot in succession, ten were
fixed in the target, and the others ranged so near
it, that, considering the distance of the mark, it was
accounted good archery. Of the ten shafts which
hit the target, two within the inner ring were shot
by Hubert, a forester in the service of Malvoisin,
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