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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: Lucy's cheeks, was speedily expelled by its conclusion.
"To take leave of us, Master!" she exclaimed; "what can have
happened to hurry you away? I know Alice hates--I mean dislikes
my father; and I hardly understood her humour to-day, it was so
mysterious. But I am certain my father is sincerely grateful for
the high service you rendered us. Lt me hope that, having won
your friendship hardly, we shall not lose it lightly."
"Lose it, Miss Ashton!" said the Master of Ravenswood. "No;
wherever my fortune calls me--whatever she inflicts upon me--it
is your friend--your sincere friend, who acts or suffers. But
there is a fate on me, and I must go, or I shall add the ruin of
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