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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: said the Master, no much pleased with the passing benediction
which was thus bestowed on his family and name.
"I kenna wha should favour them," said the grave-digger; "when
they had lands and power, they were ill guides of them baith, and
now their head's down, there's few care how lang they may be of
lifting it again."
"Indeed!" said Ravenswood; "I never heard that this unhappy
family deserved ill-will at the hands of their country. I grant
their poverty, if that renders them contemptible."
"It will gang a far way till't" said the sexton of
Hermitage, "ye may tak my word for that; at least, I ken naething
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