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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: fiend which hath obtained dominion over thee.
Thou must to the lists, Brian, or thou art a lost and
dishonoured man.''
``I will break forth and fly,'' said Bois-Guilbert
---``fly to some distant land, to which folly and
fanaticism have not yet found their way. No drop
of the blood of this most excellent creature shall be
spilled by my sanction.''
``Thou canst not fly,'' said the Preceptor; ``thy
ravings have excited suspicion, and thou wilt not
be permitted to leave the Preceptory. Go and
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