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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: authorities. And lucky it was, perhaps, for her that Sidney's
Arcadia was still in petto, or Mr. Frank (who had already seen the
first book or two in manuscript, and extolled it above all books
past, present, or to come) would have surely brought a copy down
for Rose, and thereby have turned her poor little flighty brains
upside down forever. And with her head full of these, it was no
wonder if she had likened herself of late more than once to some of
those peerless princesses of old, for whose fair hand paladins and
kaisers thundered against each other in tilted field; and perhaps
she would not have been sorry(provided, of course, no one was
killed) if duels, and passages of arms in honor of her, as her
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