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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: bearing that sign, and deigning to term HUSBAND the owner
thereof, a mean-looking hop-o'-my-thumb sort or person, whose
halting gait, and long neck, and meddling, henpecked
insignificance are supposed to have given origin to the
celebrated old English tune of "My name hath a lame tame Crane."
On this occasion he chirped out a repetition of his wife's
question, "Didst see the devil, Jack Hostler, I say?"
"And what if I did see un, Master Crane?" replied Jack Hostler,
for, like all the rest of the household, he paid as little
respect to his master as his mistress herself did.
"Nay, nought, Jack Hostler," replied the pacific Master Crane;
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