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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: * was compelled to have recourse, by the vehement entreaties of his
* friend and printer, who was inconsolable on the Saxon being
* conveyed to the tomb.
The effect of this apparition on the persons present
was utterly appalling. Cedric started back as
far as the wall of the apartment would permit, and,
leaning against it as one unable to support himself,
gazed on the figure of his friend with eyes that
seemed fixed, and a mouth which he appeared incapable
of shutting. Ivanhoe crossed himself, repeating
prayers in Saxon, Latin, or Norman-French,
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