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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: "That," replied Miss Lucy, "depends entirely on the manner in
which the nay-says are said. Mine should have not one grain of
concession in them, I promise you."
"But if your father," said Miss Vere, "were to say,--Thus do, or
--"
"I would stand to the consequences of his OR, were he the most
cruel father that ever was recorded in romance, to fill up the
alternative."
"And what if he threatened you with a catholic aunt, an abbess,
and a cloister?"
"Then," said Miss Ilderton, "I would threaten him with a
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