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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: which had rebounded from his shaven crown, with a very unghostly
malediction on the sender, which he suddenly checked with a pious
and consolatory reflection on the goodness of Providence in having
blessed him with such a thickness of skull, to which he was now indebted
for temporal preservation, as he had before been for spiritual promotion.
He opened the letter, which was addressed to father Michael;
and found it to contain an intimation that William Gamwell was to be
hanged on Monday at Nottingham.
"And I wish," said the abbot, "father Michael were to be hanged with him:
an ungrateful monster, after I had rescued him from the fangs of
civil justice, to reward my lenity by not leaving a bone unbruised
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