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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: VENICE PRESERVED. No; this is a Jaffier, or Pierre, if you like
the character better; and yet though I know I shall please you, I
am afraid to mention his name to you, lest I vex you at the same
time. Can you not guess? Something about an eagle and a rock--
it does not begin with eagle in English, but something very like
it in Scotch."
"You cannot mean young Earnscliff, Lucy?" said Miss Vere,
blushing deeply.
"And whom else should I mean" said Lucy. "Jaffiers and Pierres
are very scarce in this country, I take it, though one could find
Renaults and Bedamars enow."
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