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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: and her ear was the first that heard the distant trampling of horses,
and her eye was the first that caught the glitter of snowy plumes,
and the light of polished spears. "It is strange," thought the baron,
"that the earl should come in this martial array to his wedding;"
but he had not long to meditate on the phenomenon, for the foaming steeds
swept up to the gate like a whirlwind, and the earl, breathless with speed,
and followed by a few of his yeomen, advanced to his smiling bride.
It was then no time to ask questions, for the organ was in full peal,
and the choristers were in full voice.
The abbot began to intone the ceremony in a style of modulation impressively
exalted, his voice issuing most canonically from the roof of his mouth,
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