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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: its own mysterious commentary; and the singular circumstance of
the apparition seen by the Master of Ravenswood in the forest,
having partly transpired through his hasty inquiries in the
cottage of Old Alice, formed a theme for many exaggerations.
Lucy might have despised these tales if they had been related
concerning another family, or if her own situation had been less
despondent. But circumstanced as she was, the idea that an evil
fate hung over her attachment became predominant over her other
feelings; and the gloom of superstition darkened a mind already
sufficiently weakned by sorrow, distress, uncertainty, and an
oppressive sense of desertion and desolation. Stories were told
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