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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: hastily to claim for him a degree of attention and deference
which he feared would be refused, if not instantly vindicated as
his right. His attire was a riding-cloak, which, when open,
displayed a handsome jerkin overlaid with lace, and belted with a
buff girdle, which sustained a broadsword and a pair of pistols.
"You ride well provided, sir," said the host, looking at the
weapons as he placed on the table the mulled sack which the
traveller had ordered.
"Yes, mine host; I have found the use on't in dangerous times,
and I do not, like your modern grandees, turn off my followers
the instant they are useless."
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