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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: beauty could call down the genii from their sphere, and whose
grandeur could command the immortal race when they had
descended."
A wild and improbable conjecture arose in the knight's mind, but
he repelled it. It was impossible, he thought, that the lady of
his love should have sent him such a message by such a messenger;
yet his voice trembled as he said, "Go to, Nectabanus. Tell me
at once, and as a true man, whether this sublime lady of whom
thou speakest be other than the houri with whose assistance I
beheld thee sweeping the chapel at Engaddi?"
"How! presumptuous Knight," replied the dwarf, "think'st thou
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