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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: young gallant, smiling contemptuously;--"there lies the sore
point that will brook no handling. My good sirs, I sounded my
lamentations over my lord somewhat less loudly than some of you;
but when the point comes of doing him service, I will yield to
none of you. Had this learned leech entered, think'st thou not
there had been such a coil betwixt him and Tressilian's
mediciner, that not the sleeper only, but the very dead might
have awakened? I know what larurm belongs to the discord of
doctors."
"And who is to take the blame of opposing the Queen's orders?"
said Tracy; "for, undeniably, Doctor Masters came with her
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