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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: by the speed of our horses--not that he had stirred up the
Maronites to attack us upon this very occasion, had I not brought
up unexpectedly so many Arabs as rendered the scheme abortive--
not for any or all of these crimes does he now lie there,
although each were deserving such a doom--but because, scarce
half an hour ere he polluted our presence, as the simoom
empoisons the atmosphere, he poniarded his comrade and
accomplice, Conrade of Montserrat, lest he should confess the
infamous plots in which they had both been engaged."
"How! Conrade murdered?--And by the Grand Master, his sponsor
and most intimate friend!" exclaimed Richard. "Noble Soldan, I
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