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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Scott, Sir Walter

Scott, Sir Walter
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Ivanhoe: Chapters 11 - 16

Chapter Eleven

The roads out of Ashby were dark and sheltered by low, arching trees. The
"distant sound of revelry" in the town alarmed Gurth. Perhaps the Jewess had
been right when she cautioned him to "beware how you pass through this crowded
town, where thou mayest easily lose both thy burden and thy life." Quickening
his step did not help, for he had no sooner reached the thickest part of the
bushes than four men surprised him and ordered him to hand over his money.
Defiant even in peril, Gurth refused at first. They took ...

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