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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: unremitting assiduity, without stopping a few minutes to aid him
in his task; and, as no one of his occasional assistants was
acquainted with the degree of help which the Dwarf had received
from others, the celerity of his progress lost none of its
marvels in their eyes. The strong and compact appearance of the
cottage, formed in so very short a space, and by such a being,
and the superior skill which he displayed in mechanics, and in
other arts, gave suspicion to the surrounding neighbours. They
insisted, that, if he was not a phantom,--an opinion which was
now abandoned, since he plainly appeared a being of blood and
bone with themselves,--yet he must be in close league with the
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