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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Ay; but, Bennet, things are changed," returned the parson. "There
is now no Appleyard - rest his soul! - to keep the garrison. I
shall keep you, Bennet. I must have a good man to rest me on in
this day of black arrows. 'The arrow that flieth by day,' saith
the evangel; I have no mind of the context; nay, I am a sluggard
priest, I am too deep in men's affairs. Well, let us ride forth,
Master Hatch. The jackmen should be at the church by now."
So they rode forward down the road, with the wind after them,
blowing the tails of the parson's cloak; and behind them, as they
went, clouds began to arise and blot out the sinking sun. They had
passed three of the scattered houses that make up Tunstall hamlet,
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