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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: a conspiracy, were little accessible to any feelings but what
arose immediately out of their own machinations.
CHAPTER XII.
Some one way, some another--Do you know
Where we may apprehend her?
The researches after Miss Vere were (for the sake of appearances,
perhaps) resumed on the succeeding day, with similar bad success,
and the party were returning towards Ellieslaw in the evening.
"It is singular," said Mareschal to Ratcliffe, "that four
horsemen and a female prisoner should have passed through the
country without leaving the slightest trace of their passage.
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