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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: spectre; for, scarce had he uttered them ere the
door flew open, and Athelstane, arrayed in the garments
of the grave, stood before them, pale, haggard,
and like something arisen from the dead! *
* The resuscitation of Athelstane has been much criticised,
* as too violent a breach of probability, even for a work of such
* fantastic character. It was a _tour-de-force_, to which the author
* 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
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